Regardless of how many file managers that you installed the default will always be the same for that desktop environment. When I am in GNOME it is always Nautilus and when I am in KDE it is always Dolphin, unless you have changed it in the settings. You can't do that incidentally just by installing different desktop environments.
To find out the default file manager then he would only need to know what desktop environment each distro uses. GNOME = Nautilus KDE 3.5 = Konqueror KDE 4.x = Dolphin XFCE = Thunar LXDE = PCMan Fluxbox one needs one to be installed separately, xfm, Rox-filer or Thunar all work well Enlightenment can have different file managers depending on the distro, often it is Nautilus --no-desktop I would suggest going to distrowatch.org and looking up the distro and looking at what packages come with it. Roy On 23 March 2010 12:12, Robert Citek <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:57 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 22 March 2010 23:56, Dos-Man 64 <[1][email protected]> wrote: > >> How to determine default file manager and obtain listing of all disk > drives? > >> > >> I need to do this in code. *On KNOPPIX, it seems to be Konqueror. > >> OpenSuse seemed to be using Dolphin. *I'm actually not sure what > >> DreamLinux uses. > > > > For launching the file manager, I would set up a queue - i.e. Try to > > launch dolphin. Not there? try nautilus. Not there? try konqueror. If > > you hit the end of your list, prompt the user for a file manager, and > > store this in your list of things to try. > > But that doesn't really tell you what the default file manager is. > Dolphin, nautilus, and konqueror could all be on the same system and a > different one could be the default for different users on that same > system. > > BTW, DreamLinux runs Xfce which uses the Thunar file manager. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfce > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunar > > Regards, > - Robert > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+ > unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE > ME" as the subject. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
