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  • Fedora Thunderbird Flatpak wrong file association

    I struggled for a while with jpg image files not properly opening with the “System Handler” in Thunderbird. Despite changing the file association setting back to “Always ask” to reset it, the wrong application opened the images.

    Usually one would just select another application in the list of applications but since it is a Flatpak the sandbox restricts access and none where displaying.

    Fiddling around I deleted the second order in the chain where Thunderbird Flatpak searches for the right application to open (after the handlers.json):

    rm ~/.var/app/net.thunderbird.Thunderbird/config/mimeapps.list

    After a restart the “System Handler” finally opened up the correct application as it was using the third level in the lookup chain, the XDG Desktop Portal, which gracefully forwarded the request to Loupe in this case.

  • Empty Trash from the terminal

    For some reason I can not recall I went into my Trash bin on Fedora. There was unsurprisingly a lot of trash!

    I decided to empty the Trash bin but it only succeeded partially. I had a DVD directory that did not want to be deleted. Looking closer at the message it was a permissions error. Not sure how though, since if I did not have permissions to delete the directory from the Trash bin, how on Earth could I have moved it into the Trash bin to start with…!

    Looking around my home directory in the terminal I could not locate the exact spot to manually remove the directory. As always Google came to assistance and brought up a nice forum topic about how to empty the Trash bin in Fedora from the terminal.

    The simplest way would be to run the following command as root:

    rm -rf  ~/.local/share/Trash/files/*