linux4noobs @programming.dev Xirup @lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 mo. ago

How to change Firefox file dialog in i3wm? [Solved]

I wish to change the default Nautilus file dialog that Firefox uses, to Dolphin (my main file manager) but I cannot find any solution. Every single time I download an image, Nautilus is opened instead of Dolphin.

I tried adding GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 to my env variables, and It didn't work, then I tried changing mimetype and also did not work, I also tried modifying the xdg-portal (sorry if I'm wrong) to use xdg-desktop-portal-kde instead, but I cannot accomplish this since I didn't understand at all the Arch wiki and IIRC some files aren't exactly where the Arch wiki was pointing them.

As a last attempt, I open about:config in Firefox and search for widget.use-xdg-desktop-portal and set it to True, and still I keep having that old Nautilus as my file picker in Firefox, and this last thing usually worked well for me in Plasma.

Edit: I just restarted my pc and now randomly seems that Dolphin it's the file dialog for Firefox, I don't have a single clue how this happen.

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Have you installed xdg-desktop-portal-kde?
- Yep, alongside with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome although I don't remember installing it..
  
  Hmm, the other thing I can think of right now is have you relogged of rebooted? IIRC you need to do that for it to work.
  
  I tried several times before any change but still doesn't seem to change anything. Although something courious heppened, I removed the xdg-desktop-portal-gnome package and then reboot my system, and now when I try to download any file I don't get any file dialog, nothing happens. I tried running Firefox from the terminal to read the logs but it probably doesn't work that way because I didn't get any logs.
  
  xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is the nautilus portal
  
  How are you setting the enviroment variable?
  
  I have little experience with xdg so I might be sound as an ignorant but I tried following what the Arch wiki says about forcing a DE and since I'm using i3 and it's a window manager I force my xdg-portal to think I'm in Plasma, but I still have the same problem.
  
  Hmm, I don't use a window manager so i've never used that but how are you setting GTK_USE_PORTAL=1, I have mine in /etc/environment
  
  I also have mine in /etc/enviroment, along with these other default variables:
  
  along with these other default variables:
  
  QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE=kvantum EDITOR=nano BROWSER=firefox GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

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