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freedomlives

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Registered: 2014-01-30

Posts: 1

Thunar file associations for remote files

Hi,

I have thunar set up with an sftp path to access my server and allow me to edit config files in a graphical editor on my desktop.  In the past things worked fine-- the text editor I set as the default (gedit) for text file types opened the config files.

Sometime over the winter I updated my desktop, thunar is currently version 1.6.3.  I am just now, for the first time in several months, editing config files on the the server.

If I open the local file, e.g.: /etc/ssh/sshd_config , thunar opens it in gedit because it recognizes it as "plain test document" (from right-clicking on file in thunar and selecting "properties")

But, if I open the remote file sftp://root@myserver.net/etc/ssh/sshd_config , thunar opens it in a different applications and reports it as the kind "unknown".

I don't get why it isn't working, why it can't figure out the mime type of the remote file?