[solved] pcmanfm 0.9.8 - "open with" dialog and applications sidebar

I'm running pcmanfm with fairly fresh reinstall of openbox and I'm still struggling to get my xdg/mimeinfo stuff straightened out.
I've installed both lxmenu-data and gnome-menus and when I right click on a file and select "open with" it is blank. Nothing is listed. Doing the same with Thunar works like expected.
Also, the "applications" menu/shortcut section of pcmanfm is curiously empty even after installing gvfs.
I'm trying to figure out if it's just a package that I'm missing because my previous install had it working fine. (I habitually reinstall just to update my documentation...what can I say, I'm strange)
Thanks!
Last edited by ctarwater (2010-12-27 18:34:14)

Great, thanks!
Before I try that though I'll likely dig around a bit more. I think it's related to some filetype / mime issues.
I just tried to open a .torrent file with
mimeopen -d /path/to/file
and I got the error: "No applications found for mimetype: application/x-bittorrent"
damn.

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