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I installed Nautilus using Puppy Package Manager as shown here:
Then I went to the Default Application Chooser. It gave me the option of xdelta_gui instead of anything you would expect for a file manager.:
Setting the default file manager to this makes the system fail to open directories on the desktop and directories opened by internet browsers (everything an application manager should do when set as a default). This also causes around 6 xdelta_gui windows to open on startup (one for each autostart program), which is a symptom and not another problem.

bugsniper wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 5:17 am I installed Nautilus using Puppy Package Manager.....

Hallo, bugsniper. And to the "kennels".

I'm astonished that anyone should want to weigh a lightweight Puppy down with a heavyweight file-manager, I really am. Still, that's your choice.

For the DefaultApplicationsChooser, you're not stuck with whatever the dropdown shows you, y'know. If you have a Menu entry for Nautilus, that means you've got a .desktop file somewhere in /usr/share/applications. If you navigate to /usr/share/applications, and have a scout around, you should soon find it. Right-click to open it with Geany, or whatever text editor you prefer, and look through to see what the name of its executable is (the 'Exec' line.)

If you then type the name of that executable into the box for 'File Manager', followed by 'Apply', and closing it, Nautilus should now open as the default file manager whenever you open 'Files' on the desktop.....

Hope that helps.


Mike.

Welcome to Puppy Land!

We do need specific information to give help.
There are about 300 active versions of Puppy Linux .
They are all slightly different!!!

WE always need, at minimum, what the Puppy version is you are using!!!!!!!
By the image you posted we guessed it is Bionicpup64 8.0

As a new user of Puppy.
There is one thing you need to know and understand.

PPM(Puppy Package Manager) can get software from non Puppy repositories.
For Bionicpup64 8.0 PPM can get software from Ubuntu repositories.
The software in these repositories was compiled for Ubuntu (Bionic) which uses the same core Linux files/programs that are used in Bionicpu64 8.0.
So, good chance the stuff will also work in Bionicpup64 8.0.
A lot of the software will work in Bionicpup64.
But not 100% it will always work.
Sorry, but welcome to Linux software.

A truly always 100% compatible compiled software package needs to have software compiled for a specific Linux OS.

Notice the Nautilus package needed to also install 39 dependency files and or added programs to even work in Bionicpup64 8.0.
That is a completely different problem you can have with Linux software.
Does the Linux OS have all the needed dependency stuff to be able to run the program.

PPM tries hard to get everything needed, but not always it gets it all 100% of the time.
Again, welcome to Linux software.

Note:
Good idea to do this before downloading anything.
PPM needs to update the info on what is in the repositories.
Have to manually do this.
PPM->Configure->Update Database->Update now
Then pick something to download and install.

I tried it just to see how it works in Bionicpup64 8.0

Do as mikewalsh suggests.
In the Default Applications Chooser.
File Manager selection.
You have to type in nautilus.
It is not going to be a listed item in the drop down.
Note:
Usually file names in Linux are all lowercase.
Thus the exec file name for Nautilus is nautilus.
.

I tried this in a "clean" Bionicpup64, running without save-folder.

Certainly, it installs OK, but it doesn't look anything like it does under, say, Ubuntu or Mint. I don't think I'd pick it in preference to ROX, mind.....even though space/RAM/processing power is no longer an issue for me. I'm too used to ROX-filer by now, and I'm very quick with it.....and I just like its quirky nature!


Mike.

bigpup wrote: ↑Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:55 pm By the image you posted we guessed it is Bionicpup64 8.0

Correct, I'm using bionicpup64 version 8.0.

Thanks for the answers, everyone. I think I understand everything now.