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It's funny but audacious runs when I don't even request for it. For example, when I press Open Folder in Chrome downloads or when I choose Browse Packages in Sublime Text. A file for Open Folder in Chrome may not be a music file.

How can I fix it?

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Audacious registers itself as an application that can handle directory MIME type (more precisely inode/directory). This can be seen in its .desktop file at /usr/share/applications/audacious.desktop (location might be different on Arch) where MimeType variable is set.

On your system for inode/directory MIME type, either:

  • there is no other application that can handle it, only Audacious
  • there are more such applications but Audacious is set as default for it
  • there are more such applications but none of them is set as default for it (and Audacious is simply the first)

To work with MIME associations use xdg-mime command. For example, to set Firefox to open directories (you may choose your preferred file manager instead of Firefox) execute:

xdg-mime default firefox.desktop inode/directory

Then you can check the result with:

$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory                                        
firefox.desktop

And you can test if it is working with xdg-open:

xdg-open /tmp

Now Firefox should be launched showing the content of /tmp.

xdg-mime writes its settings to ~/.local/share/applications/ or -- if you use --mode system option -- it writes to /etc/xdg/applications/ (you have to be root in this case).

It is likely that your desktop environment also provides a way to change associations.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=671807#p671807

He said:

in XFCE, I use Thunar.basically edit ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and add to the end (with a blank line afterwards)

[Default Applications]
x-directory/normal=Thunar.desktop

To open with Dolphin:

[Default Applications]
x-directory/normal=kde4-dolphin.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_dir.desktop;

I'm using Debian9, It works for me.

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    This doesn't seem to provide an answer to the problem with Audacious. It may avoid it but it isn't really a solution to the problem.
    – bu5hman
    Commented Dec 12, 2017 at 4:17
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    @bu5hman Audacious has set itself to open directories. Doing this you set which application to open them. I've set thunar.desktop and does work (manjaro, xfce4), no more audacious is opened when trying to invoke some directory from xdg. Try things before blame...
    – m3nda
    Commented Apr 7, 2018 at 4:37

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