I like to change my file chooser in gnome as this file chooser is taking about 8 second to open, and for some reason firefox and gedit have different file chooser which is fast but google chrome, vscode these are use i think nautilus which is very slow, is there any way i could change my default file chooser?
If the application is launching Nautilus as the file selection dialog, then it means it’s using the GNOME portal. It should not take 8 seconds to launch Nautilus, so it’s likely something is happening in your installation that delays the launch.
I would recommend asking on the user support forum of your Linux distribution for help in debugging this issue.
cant i change diffrent file manager to use it here? instead of nautilus
No, you cannot change it: it is part of the GNOME xdg-desktop-portal backend.
You could configure your system to not use the GNOME portal for the file chooser, by using the portals.conf configuration file, but then you’d fall back to the GTK3 file selection dialog.
GTK3 file selection dialog is faster than nautilus i think i will use this gtk3
thank you very much it worked perfectly.
┌──(root㉿kali)-[~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal]
└─# pwd
/root/.config/xdg-desktop-portal
┌──(root㉿kali)-[~/.config/xdg-desktop-portal]
└─# cat portals.conf
[preferred]
default=gtk
org.freedesktop.impl.portal.FileChooser=gtk
Stop using GNOME with your root user. You should never use root as your login user.
Thank you i will try not to use it for everything.