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#1043 Can't open remote FTP files
Since upgrade to Cinnamon 2.2 and GTK/GNOME 3.12, Geany can't open remote FTP files. No error displayed. Any file is seen as blank.
Accessing FTP files works with Gedit 3.12.1.
When accessing remote FTP location, Nemo/Nautilus now displays the actual FTP URL (ie. ftp://ftp.foobar.org) instead of GVFS mountpoint, as it previoulsy did. Not sure it is relevant to this particular bug though.
~/.gvfs directory is empty.
System : Manjaro Linux testing
GTK 3.12
Cinnamon/Nemo 2.2.1
Geany 1.24.1
Kernel 3.12.18-1-MANJARO
GVFS 1.20.1-2
Apparently gvfs-fuse mounts are now in /run/user/$UID/gvfs, so empty ~/.gvfs is probably expected. I don't have an FTP to test with, but works for me with a SFTP with gvfs-fuse 1.20, GTK 3.12. Nautilus is still 3.8 here, but it always displayed the stfp://url, not the fuse mount.
Please make sure you have gvfs-fuse, and that it works properly.
Anyway, Geany cannot access non-local mounts, and that's known and expected (at least for now), so if gvfs-fuse doesn't do its job of mounting locally with FUSE, it's a bug there, not in Geany.
Ok thanks, it does work -more or less- from /run/user/$UID/gvfs.
The weirdest thing is that sometimes /run/user/$UID/gvfs is empty even though the FTP directory seems to be mounted. Anyway, not a Geany bug. Sorry for filing an invalid bug report.
No problem.
However, why do you manually navigate to the gvfs-fuse mount? For me, opening with Geany from inside Nautilus works, and Geany's open dialog lists the mounts and navigate them seamlessly, just like GEdit.
All gvfs-fuse magic happens under the hood, only way to tell is that Geany actually has a local path afterward.
It's because opening the FTP directory from within Geany doesn't always work. Sometimes I get an empty file. No idea why.
Oh, wow. This looks like a bug, possibly in GVFS or gvfs-fuse… maybe e.g. the FUSE mount happens on demand when trying to resolve a locale path, and the real mounting happens after the local path is resolved? Just a guess, I don't know.
I believe this one should be fixed by using GIO g_file_load_contents() as proposed in
https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/605
Should also fix
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/geany/+bug/738147
The thing is (I believe) if a file is created from some other application over gvfs, it's possible that the file hasn't reached the remote server yet and is just cached locally so far. Using g_file_get_contents() accesses the remote server immediately over FUSE but the file isn't there yet. However, if we use g_file_load_contents(), we get the local copy from GVFS.
Works for me, cinnamon 2.2.16, Geany 1.25, Mint 17
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On 19 August 2015 at 21:14, Lex Trotman elextr@gmail.com wrote:
My machine uses /var/run/user/<uid>/gvfs. IIUC it needs a Gnome
specific daemon to populate ~/.gvfs
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