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churchyard

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Mplayer always opened in xterm when doubleclicked a file in Thunar

Hi,
I use mplayer as my video player. A have asociated Mplayer (cli) as my app for opening video files in Thunar. The mplayer-cli .desktop file includes this line:

Terminal=true

This means, when I doubleclick a video file in thunar a terminal window is opened with mplayer (that is exactly what I want). Problem is, xterm is opened and not xfce4-terminal, even though exo-open --launch TerminalEmulator and x-terminal-emulator runs xfce4-terminal. When I put an launcher to the panel ant check the option Open in terminal, it opens xfce4-terminal again, which makes no sence to me. Is that a bug, or I have missed some settings?

System information: Thunar 1.2.2, Debian testing, acting the same on Fedora 16.

Thanks for help.

Last edited by churchyard (2011-07-13 19:36:17)

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Re: Mplayer always opened in xterm when doubleclicked a file in Thunar

Blame GIO.

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churchyard

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Re: Mplayer always opened in xterm when doubleclicked a file in Thunar

I've installed gnome-control-center, as GIO comes form GNOME, and set preffered terminal emulator to xfce4-terminal, but it didn't help. Where can I set GIO's default terminal emulator? Thanks for quick reply.

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Re: Mplayer always opened in xterm when doubleclicked a file in Thunar

You can't, they hard-coded defaults in the code. See http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/g … nfo.c#n974. I've suggested a work around in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592857 but probably nobody cares.

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churchyard

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Re: Mplayer always opened in xterm when doubleclicked a file in Thunar

Oh, I see. Seem like thay care a bit, but ask you something. Well good luck, I could live with this
Thank you.