'find' lists files but wont open them
valentingar opened this issue · 2 comments
Some time ago, my pop-launcher stopped opening files that are found by typing find my_file. Could this be a permission issue? I am unfortunately not very experienced using Linux, so any help fixing this issue would be much appreciated!
I don't have any custom plugins installed for the pop-launcher. Here is some info on the system:
output from cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Pop!_OS"
VERSION="22.04 LTS"
ID=pop
ID_LIKE="ubuntu debian"
PRETTY_NAME="Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="22.04"
HOME_URL="https://pop.system76.com"
SUPPORT_URL="https://support.system76.com"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://system76.com/privacy"
VERSION_CODENAME=jammy
UBUNTU_CODENAME=jammy
LOGO=distributor-logo-pop-os
output from apt policy pop-shell
pop-shell:
Installed: 1.1.0~1680708801~22.04~a3a1b7b
Candidate: 1.1.0~1680708801~22.04~a3a1b7b
Version table:
*** 1.1.0~1680708801~22.04~a3a1b7b 1001
1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy/main amd64 Packages
1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
output from apt policy pop-launcher
pop-launcher:
Installed: 1.2.2~1679671233~22.04~ce2ba21
Candidate: 1.2.2~1679671233~22.04~ce2ba21
Version table:
*** 1.2.2~1679671233~22.04~ce2ba21 1001
1001 http://apt.pop-os.org/release jammy/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Wow. I found the problem.
Problem
The problem also was present when trying to open any file or folder from the Desktop.
So I noticed that running
xdg-open path_to_any_file
in the terminal yielded an error
"WSL Interopability is disabled. Please enable it before using WSL."
Solution:
Running
sudo apt purge wslu
as per this thread removed both the error message in the terminal and fixed the error in the pop launcher and dekstop.
Just to be clear, are you running the launcher in a Windows environment using WSL?