Petr Kozelka's blog

Recently I played with several multimedia tools – cutting and editing movies, transforming them to diferent codecs etc. – and during that activity, something was broken in my Ubuntu user account: when I try to open Home folder from the Ubuntu’s “Places” menu, it causes that gnome-mplayer is executed instead of the default nautilus.

Here is what I do:

… and here is what happens:

You see ? There is gnome-mplayer scanning the given folder, which makes me believe that gnome-mplayer installed itself somewhere in my user settings instead of nautilus. Yes, it must be user-wide, not system wide – because other user accounts on the computer do not suffer this way.

Note: thanks to Miloš Svašek for helping me to resolve WordPress issues with images.

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) has a little issue with Midnight Commander – it does not browse into zipped files, and shows empty contents instead. After searching the web I found out that the problem can be solved by setting property “op_has_zipinfo” to “1″ in file “/usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip”. For the truly lazy people I prepared this little commandline fixing that (no need to open the editor):

sudo sed '/op_has_zipinfo/{s:0:1:}' /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip >x && sudo chmod 755 x && sudo mv x /usr/share/mc/extfs/uzip

Enjoy!