Prevent opening Visual Studio Code when click Show In Folder in Chrome

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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.

linux-mint visual-studio-code file-management google-chrome chromium
3 Answers

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.

user_54150240

Finally found! it. I had to delete

inode/directory; /usr/share/code/code --new-window %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

line in the /etc/mailcap file. Bingo!

Chromium related browsers seems to not respect xdg settings on not full-fledged Desktop environments like i3wm which I use. Because the problem was not reproducible when I logged in with xfce4 session.

user_12788900

The solution is simpler, What happens is that the system orders the directory opening preferences. Just go to the file manager > select a folder > right click > open with another application > select the file manager. This will update the opening preferences for the directories.

user_95108100
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