gtk file chooser weirdness in linux-firefox

Alexander Konovalenko kono at kth.se
Tue Aug 15 17:00:51 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 15 August 2006 15:19, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:47:31 +0200
>
> Alexander Konovalenko <kono at kth.se> mentioned:
> > Hi!
> >
> > For a long time I am experiencing weird problem when trying to choose
> > file from File->Open_File or when I want to change "download
> > action/helper application" in the preferences. The problem is that GTK
> > file chooser does not list all files in the selected directory.
> >
> > Check it out here:
> > http://daemon.nanophys.kth.se/~kono/buggy_file_chooser.png
> >
> >  So some GTK library want to convince me that in /usr/X11R6/bin folder
> > there are only three files? there are 539!
> >
> > I tried to right-click and activate hidden files in the chooser, tried
> > from the root account, no luck.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> That's because Linux apps access files rooted in /compat/linux first,
> and only falls back if file isn't found. So firefox merely lists
> contents of /compat/linux/usr/X11R6, not /usr/X11R6.

ok, you are right, but in /usr/compat/linux there is no home folder for 
example, however file chooser of linux-firefox shows it together with other  
folders from FreeBSD root folder. Isn't it weird to mix folders 
from /usr/compat/linux and / ? Is there any configuration of this?

And how to jump to the real / folder from linux-app file chooser (currently I 
just created a soft link to it)? There is button called "Filesystems" but 
that does not go to freebsd /.

>
> > Currently I don't use freebsd natively build firefox because it's
> > unstable.
>
> I'm using it permanetly without any problem. What exactly you are
> experiencing?

natively built firefox just hangs on amd64 FreeBSD 5.5 when started. Tried to 
rebuild/upgrade it couple of times but did not help.
 firefox-1.5.0.6,1

/Alexander Konovalenko


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