Issue
I've been googling and fighting this for a half a day already.
When I download something in Google Chrome I want to go to the folder with a file. But when I press 'Show in folder' a Visual Studio Code starts instead of my Thunar. How can I fix this?
Firefox opens folders ok but Chromium, Google-Chrome and Opera kicks of Visual Studio Code.
My system is Linux Mint Tara. I've already tried some things. Like added
[Default Applications]
inode/directory=Thunar.desktop
to /home/[user]/.config/mimeapps.list
Completely removed code.desktop from /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
Ran xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory and the output of xdg-mime query default inode/directory is Thunar.desktop!!!
Even fully removed code.desktop from filesystem. Nothing worked!
Please help, this annoys me so much.
Solution
This is caused by MimeType=text/plain;inode/directory; which can be found in /usr/share/applications/code.desktop for what I can find.
What fixed it for me is changing this line to MimeType=text/plain; and removing code.desktop from /usr/share/applications/mimelist.cache
EDIT
A more permanent solution i've found is the following.
add inode/directory=org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop to the ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file.
After doing this make sure to the inode/directory entry is the same or not present at all in ~/.local/share/applications/mimelist.cache' and /usr/share/applications/mimelist.cache
org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop can be replaced by your preferred file explorer if you don't use Nautilus.
You might need to restart your desktop environment for the changes to apply.
Answered By - Pieter