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Ok, in that case I'll use gdebi. And, out of curiosity, if I accidentally tried to install a deb meant for Wheezy or sid, or Ubuntu, say, would gdebi warn me?

Yes, I'm running Stable (Squeeze).

I've heard of pinning, but would need to study it. How safe is that - I thought the general rule was not to install packages from Testing and sid if running Stable?

Thanks rhowaldt - very helpful! Will try that out and report back.

I'll update this for the sake of trying ot understand what's going on - but I'm no longer at that location.

Single story buildings either side - on at least one side with corrugated iron roofs. I'd be a little surprised if one person was hacking in - I'd be very, very surprised if there were a lot of people. But I don't think the password had been changed for a couple of years, since it included a word and the digits "2009" :-D.

Full bars and "90%". The router was on the wall outside my room, about 3-4 m away in a straight line.

After the improvement in stability that I noted above (and shortly afterwards deleting all but my own floor's network in nm-applet/NetworkManager) I had a stable connection for the next ~2 days, except for one time when it disconnected and popped up (and reconnected promptly when I hit enter). So, even when there's only one network to choose from, it still has the annoying popup password-request behavior.

chaanakya - thanks for the details. I have deadlines looming at the moment, but I've noted your wicd instructions for future use.

Seems to persist, sometimes for hours.

I'll nitpick: the strongest signal is the one on this floor, but in the last 2 days it often won't let me connect, and I get that popup. So I try the weaker signals from other floors, and one of them usually does better.

For the last hour, this floor's signal has given no problems, so I'll delete the other two and observe... (I think it was giving me the annoying popup behavior before I added the other two floors, but not 100% sure.)

I checked, and those connections are set up to connect automatically. Seems to be the default setting.

I do want it to connect automatically. I don't want it to prompt me for a password which it already has.

Ahhhh, gotcha. It's working now, thanks! Will mark "SOLVED."

I was confused by the suggestion at first, but then realized that it's counting the "sleep" from almost the same starting time - I guess that makes sense since the line commands are all starting almost at the same time, thanks to the & on the end of the lines effectively saying "go on to the next command while this runs in the background). (thanks machinebacon... that explains the out of sequence startups I've seen in the past!). So I can put whatever times I want in, but they need to get larger if I want the files to open later.

File1 seems to need more time (being larger as well as needing gwrite itself to start up). So I changed the commands to:

sleep 2 && gwrite docs/file1 &
sleep 10 && gwrite docs/file2 &
sleep 11 && gwrite docs/file3 &
sleep 12 && gwrite docs/file4 &
sleep 13 && gwrite docs/file5 &
sleep 14 && gwrite docs/file6 &
sleep 16 && gwrite docs/file7 &
sleep 17 && gwrite docs/file8 &
sleep 18 && gwrite docs/file9 &

(or I could add a bigger sleep to the first line, depending when I want it to start.)

...and that's perfect - thanks! (Haven't tried in autostart.sh yet, but as it works pasting into a terminal, I'm guessing it'll be fine.)

(xaos52: I forgot to mention that my gwrite is set to open new files in tabs rather than windows; and with that code, I'm guessing it would open all the documents with almost no delay between them.)

Thanks for the help, everyone.

I tried the various suggestions here (including deleting mimeTypes.rdf and "xdg-mime default pcmanfm.desktop application/x-directory"), with no change. I restarted my machine, and still no change. (I also got busy with work, hence my slow response...)

Extra info: I have the same issue with gnome-search-tool (as well as the various browsers), so it's definitely not a browser-specific issue.

I then tried uninstalling Thunar to see what system changes get made (thanks for the suggestion, johnraff). Sure enough, when I choose "open in folder" from Firefox and gnome-search-tool, it opens in PCManFM. But after installed Thunar again, Thunar again took over as default.

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SOLVED:
Finally I went back to chaanakya's suggestion to try editing /usr/share/applications/Thunar-folder-handler.desktop - I changed the commands in these three lines from Thunar to pcmanfm:

TryExec=pcmanfm
Exec=pcmanfm %F
Icon=pcmanfm

And it works!

It counts as a not-quite-so-ugly-hack, since I'm not renaming the Thunar command itself, but there's still something odd when I have to edit a one program's desktop file to point to a different program. Not a problem for me, though.

I don't know if %F is correct for "Exec=pcmanfm %F" - but the issue that I had seems to be solved, and that's what matters.

Thanks for all the advice, folks, and especially chaanakya.