Thunar "executes" non-executable-files which are marked as executable
Submitted by jue..@..il.com
Assigned to Xfce Bug Triage
Description
I had an issue for which I posted on the xfce forums, and the kind moderator ToZ there helped me a lot. In the end though, he suggested posting here, as this might very well be a Thunar issue. Relevant discussion is here:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=46397
In short: "I am currently using Winamp 2.95 through Wine, and while it worked beautifully for months, something suddenly changed. Double-clicking a m3u playlist file does nothing anymore, but right-clicking it and selecting the default action works just as expected. I have tried resetting the default "open with" application, using a custom command, reinstalling Winamp and removing/setting back its file associations, but to no avail. I'm running 64-bit Linux Lite 3.6, Thunar 1.6.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 and xfce 4.12." The solution to my problem was that the file was marked as executable, and changing it to non-executable made it work.
Some command outputs that might be relevant:
francois@SilentPC:/Desktop$ xdg-mime query filetype Rock.m3u
audio/x-mpegurl
francois@SilentPC:/Desktop$ xdg-mime query default audio/x-mpegurl
wine-extension-miz.desktop
francois@SilentPC:~/Desktop$ xdg-mime query default $(xdg-mime query filetype Rock.m3u)
wine-extension-miz.desktop
francois@SilentPC:~/Desktop$ cat $(locate wine-extension-miz.desktop) [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Winamp MimeType=application/x-wine-extension-miz; Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/francois/.wine" wine start /ProgIDOpen Winamp.File %f NoDisplay=true StartupNotify=true Icon=F465_winamp.0
francois@SilentPC:~/Desktop$ xfconf-query -c thunar -lv /last-details-view-column-widths 50,130,50,50,501,50,50,64,53 /last-details-view-zoom-level THUNAR_ZOOM_LEVEL_SMALLER /last-icon-view-zoom-level THUNAR_ZOOM_LEVEL_NORMAL /last-separator-position 172 /last-show-hidden true /last-sort-column THUNAR_COLUMN_NAME /last-sort-order GTK_SORT_ASCENDING /last-view ThunarCompactView /last-window-height 633 /last-window-maximized false /last-window-width 928 /misc-date-style THUNAR_DATE_STYLE_ISO /misc-exec-shell-scripts-by-default true /misc-file-size-binary true /misc-recursive-permissions THUNAR_RECURSIVE_PERMISSIONS_ALWAYS /misc-single-click false /misc-thumbnail-mode THUNAR_THUMBNAIL_MODE_NEVER
Also, running Thunar from the terminal and double-clicking the file resulted in this: /home/francois/Rock.m3u: 3: /home/francois/Rock.m3u: Z:homefrancoisMusicMP3sRockACDCACDC: not found /home/francois/Rock.m3u: 19: /home/francois/Rock.m3u: Z:homefrancoisMusicMP3sRockACDCACDC: not found /home/francois/Rock.m3u: 38: /home/francois/Rock.m3u: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
but as mentioned above, the issue was fixed without modifying the file contents.
Thank you!
Version: 1.6.11