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changeset 80:38556e02ecb6
add new blog post
| author | Dirk Olmes <dirk@xanthippe.ping.de> |
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| date | Wed, 10 Feb 2016 03:43:25 +0100 |
| parents | 0d96547a630f |
| children | cdb041787591 |
| files | content/Linux/file-manager.md content/images/EclipseShowInSystemExplorer.png |
| diffstat | 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/content/Linux/file-manager.md Wed Feb 10 03:43:25 2016 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +Title: Enabling "Show in System Explorer" in Eclipse on Linux +Date: 2016-02-10 +Lang: en + + + +On my [Gentoo](http://www.gentoo.org/) machine the "Show in System Explorer" menu item did not work on Eclipse. I kept getting this error message: + + Execution of 'dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 org.freedesktop.FileManager1.ShowItems array:string:"file:/tmp/HelloWorld.java" string:""' failed with return code: 1 + +A quick search on the net found the [freedesktop File Manager DBus specification](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/file-manager-interface/). It mentions only Gnome's Nautilus implementing the dbus interface - but I do not use Gnome, I use [XFCE](http://www.xfce.org/). Some more searching finds a [ticket on the XFCE bugtracker](https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12414) which confirms that Thunar, the XFCE file manager, does not support the file manager DBus interface yet. + +Now I had some motivation to learn more about the dbus message bus. There are even [Python language bindings](https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/) for dbus and the [tutorial](https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/doc/tutorial.html) suggests that it should not be too hard to put together some glue code that exposes the freedesktop file manager interface and forwards all calls to Thunar. + +The result is [up on github](https://github.com/dirk-olmes/dbus-file-manager). \ No newline at end of file