unable to change preferred file manager from PCManFM to xfe

[marcosni]

Hi, I've just done a fresh Debian (wheezy) install with LXDE but am trying to set Xfe as my preferred file manager. I've tried different aproaches, but with limited sucess. For instance, if I ask Icedove to open the folder where I've downloaded a file, it will open the folder using Xfe. But if I have a folder on my desktop and I double click it, it will always open with PCManFM. If I use the right mouse button, I have the option of "Open with"/XFE, but I'd like this to be the default.

Things I've tried:

1) Start/Preferences/Preferred Applications - Only has options for Web Browser and E-mail Client.

2.1) In ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/config I've changed to FileManager=xfe (and have also tried xfe "%s" and %s)

2.2) Right-click on panel (LXPanel 0.5.10)/Panel Settings/Advanced - Set Preferred Applications - File Manager: xfe (and have also tried xfe "%s" and %s)

3) I've seen that if I right-click on an image inside PCManFM, and follow Properties, I'll be able to set the default Application on the General tab, but that option does not exist for a folder.

4) I have also tried using xdg-mime (both with my user, and root)
/usr/share/applications$ xdg-mime default xfe.desktop inode/directory
/usr/share/applications$ xdg-mime query default inode/directory
$ xfe.desktop

After I tried the xdg-mime approach a couple of tries ago, I noticed I now have a xfe as my first option when I right-click the folder icon on my Desktop (instead of the default "File Manager" 1st option). Also, when I logout/login to see if anything has changed, I'm now getting this error: "Xfce Notify Daemon // Unable to start notification daemon // Another notification xndaemon is already running." I tried setting it back to PCManFM, for both myself and root, but the error is still there.

Hope someone can give some advice on solving this issue... I've spent the whole afternoon on it and now I have an error that wasn't even there beforehand.

(I even tried to use Xfce, but another clueless error prevents me from logging in whenever I try.)

[Rex Bouwense]

This may be too late to help you but this apparently was a bug and has been fixed in xfe 1.40.
http://sourceforge.net/p/xfe/bugs/193/
There is also a work around here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235440
Sorry for being so late.