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Ubuntu Places menu: weird behavior of “Home” place

January 5th, 2011 Leave a comment Go to comments

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.

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  • Brotherlee44

    My “Places” menu when clicked on desktop or others, takes me to “movie player.’ Why is this? I had just edited some home video and then this error now occurs.

  • Monoplex

    I was having the same annoying problem just now. but here’s what caused it and how to fix it. simple really
    what I did and I bet you did too was try to open a folder with “Open With Other Application…” and the box Remember this application for “folder” files was checked.
    now every time you want to open a folder normally the computer tries to use the newly associated program rather than nautilus.

    THE FIX: open nautilus, right click on a folder, Open With Other…., find “Open Folder” and select that and make sure that Remember this is checked.

    Hope this helps someone.

  • Anonymous

    How simple… it just didn’t happen to my mind that I might have done something like this (I suspect my kids anyway :) )
    Thanks for sharing!

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