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Hi arp

Did you test it with Thunar first? If so, did it work?

I have just tested it with ROX-Filer and it works for me. Either of the first two of your examples should do it.

Could you look through the process again and check everything is okay. For example, your ~/bin folder should be in your system $PATH and ~/bin/nautilus should be executable. If you deleted your bin folder, you will probably need to reboot after recreating it.

Hi arp

Please note that I have made an edit to the original post, specifically to section 8, concerning ~/.config/openbox/autostart.sh. I have included some gconf settings so that if some random application actually calls on /usr/bin/nautilus, the resulting fallout should be minimal.

Isn't there an easier way to prevent the installation of nautilus altogether, by creating a fake nautilus package, that just sets a link to thunar? Isn't something similar done with the fake mono package (mononono), to prevent any mono stuff to be installed?

Last edited by Master One (2008-11-29 08:53:12)

I am not sure that creating a fake Nautilus package would be easier Besides, Nautilus is needed to perform the initial Dropbox set-up. Also, I am not keen on the idea of creating fake packages as they tend to lead to other potential/unseen problems. Having said that, the mononono package looks interesting, I will check it out, thanks

No problem I have been meaning to try the above for a while. When I read your dent, it was just the excuse I had been looking for. I am actually really quite impressed with Dropbox. It is working well and I have not noticed any performance issues since performing the set-up.

I think I'll have to check dropbox out. Not much use to me at the moment though. Did I mention my teenage daughter discovered how to use bittorrent recently. My 12gb adsl usage eaten up in 2 weeks. I've been throttled to dialup speeds at home for two more !

"Sorry dad, I didn't know", she said.

Last edited by MarvinSuggs (2008-11-29 20:46:28)

It now seems to be broken. I am trying to install the Dropbox .deb and I get an error everytime:

Could not download all required files

When I looked at the file, I see:
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/poo … 2_i386.deb 404 Not Found

When I look at the archive, low and behold:

[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.22.1-0ubuntu2.dsc    06-May-2008 10:06     1.1K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.22.1-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb    06-May-2008 10:06     248K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.22.1-0ubuntu2_i386.deb    06-May-2008 10:06     227K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.22.1.orig.tar.gz    07-Apr-2008 15:05     1.8M     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3.diff.gz    25-Nov-2008 22:04     13K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3.dsc    25-Nov-2008 22:04     1.8K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3_amd64.deb    25-Nov-2008 23:05     307K     
[ ]    gnome-settings-daemon_2.24.0-0ubuntu3.3_i386.deb    25-Nov-2008 22:04     286K

That .deb file is NOT there.

So, I am not sure what I am supposed to do about it now.

Any ideas?

Michael

Hey Philip,

Um never, cause I just finished installing and was trying to find the command to update. I remember that there was some peculiarities in previous !#.

BTW, I am really loving the 8.10 release. I may stick with it and move it to my new work laptop when I get it.

Thanks for the tip, I am on it now.

Michael

Last edited by michaelramm (2008-12-05 05:05:50)

Hi ShaqArif

I think I understand where you are coming from with this Yes this should be possible, but you would first have to backup and remove/move the current file located at /usr/bin/nautilus, or use the -f --force ln command option. This would be fine in a single user environment where the user is certain that Nautilus will not be required; however, on a system which is shared by multiple users, it would be advisable that hacks like this only affect the user concerned. By creating the script in the users personal bin directory, only that user would be affected.

Having said that, your method used within a users account would do the job just as comfortably as creating the script:

ln -s /usr/bin/thunar ~/bin/nautilus

The only advantage to using a shell script, that I can think of, would be to include some conditional statements which detect the current session/environment and launch a preferred file manager; under some conditions, for example when operating within a GNOME session, it might be preferable to actually start Nautilus as opposed to Thunar.

#!/bin/bash

if [ $DESKTOP_SESSION = "openbox" ]; then
    exec thunar $@
else
    exec nautilus $@
fi
exit 0

Anyhow, it is a good point, thank you for the tip!

yawtrdb - yet another way to run dropbox
dbcli.py from http://wiki.getdropbox.com/TipsAndTrick … nuxInstall.

Usage: ./dbcli.py <command> [options] ... <command> [options]
Available commands:
   status - Get overall status for the daemon.
   copypublic <file> - Copies the url to the clipboard (? I guess)
   install <x86/x86_64> - Tries to download the daemon and install it in your home directory.
   browse <folder> - Browse the specified folder in your browser.
   copygallery - Copies the gallery url to the clipboard.
   share <file> - Open the browser and shows share-information.
   file <file> - Get information about a file/folder.
   folder <folder> - Get information about a file/folder.
   help - Gives this.
   revisions <file> - Opens the revisions page in your browser for the specified file.

"ln -s /usr/bin/thunar /usr/bin/nautilus" to launch thunar when the db icon is clicked.

Nice tip! Your method certainly seems cleaner, I will give it a go the next time I set-up Dropbox. Thank you.

No way I'm installing nautilus.

I used pbsMind's tip. Worked perfectly. Built a "nautilus" script like the one mentioned earlier but instead of rox I'm using pcmanfm.
It seems I'm missing the sharing functions with pcmanfm which doesn't surprise me. Is this sharing of stuff only supported when using nautilus of is this a web interface only thing?

On my system the dropbox client opens w3m instead of a graphical browser.