[Gambas-user] Get the default file manager

[BB]

On 18/2/24 11:36 pm, Bruce Steers wrote:
> Well maybe not the linux core but surely most desktop environments 
> have to have it configured somehow?

No, not really.  Some, like lxde for instance, use a "file manager" as 
the "desktop", but I think you guys are looking for some mythical app 
launching beast that also has a gui that displays the files in a certain 
directory.

Distros, not desktops, usually provide one of those beasts automatically 
and that is thought to be the "default" when all it is is the 
"automatically provided" desktop file manager gui application. I too run 
xfce4 as the desktop, but my file manager is nemo, not thunar. In fact I 
removed thunar from the local machine (just because I dislike it 
personally).

It's like the notion that the $EDITOR in the env is the "default" text 
editor. It is so only if scripts, mime handlers and etc use that env 
setting.

As to the idea that the DE has it configured somehow is another 
misconception. I looked through my entire system to see if I could find 
some mention of nemo in a config file anywhere. No result apart from a 
desktop launcher (Home) that runs it expressly. However, one thing does 
bemuse me. The dbus org.freedesktop.FileManager1 knows that nemo is my 
file manager somehow, even if I have not run it in the current session. 
If however, I log in using a LXDE desktop, then pcmanfm becomes the 
automatically used file manager gui. So it's not a user preference set 
somewhere that I can locate. ?

b