can't open gvfs sftp files

Thanks for your report. What update do you mean? The latest geany update
or general system updates? Also, I can't reproduce, I can open files on
sftp mounted directories with geany.

Can you look if there is something in your .xsession-errors?

What happens if you try opening the files with gedit? (Right mouse
click, open with)

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With gedit it works, that's the strange thing.Also, there is nothing in the .xsession-errors related to geany or gvfs or fuse. I don't know exactly, how this comes, but it's like this since ~4 days. I append my apt history file.

And also purging geany, removing per-user-config, reinstalling geany doesn't work

That's strange. Can you do 'strace -o strace-geany.txt geany', open a
sftp-mounted file and attach the strace to this report?

I've done some debugging work, and this is where i found something strange:

filelist = gtk_file_chooser_get_filenames(GTK_FILE_CHOOSER(ui_widgets.open_filesel));
if (filelist != NULL)

filelist seems to be NULL, because it goes never in this if. At the time the problem started, some gtk stuff was updated, maybe there was a change in the API or something similar?

the strace

Can you try and test this with a new user profile? I can't reproduce the
issue at all, tried opening files with different paths, names, german
umlauts äöü - all worked. So I can't imagine it's a API issue.

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With a new profile it worked so i'll try to find the problematic setting in my home dir (will be a long night :) ). I'll tell you what caused the problem. Thanks for your time and sorry that it was wasted...

The bug also hit me. I thus think it's not "invalid", it's rather low-priority.

Levu, could you please post here as soon as you have found the problematic setting? Thanks.

This affects me too, since updating my 10.10 installation to natty yesterday.

Any pointers? Thanks.

I create a new user profile with and without encryption (encfs).

User profile without encryption Nautilus and Geany 0.20 doesn't have problems with open remote files from sftp.
With encryption geany can't open remote files from sftp and nautlilus context menu doesn't show up geany as default application to open. That's a bit weird...

So geany just open remote files with user profiles without encfs.

Tested on Ubuntu 10.10.

The user profile personal encryption folder option is encrypted with the default ecrypts and not encfs. Sorry for the wrong info.

I did an install of natty 11.04 over my 10.04 without formatting so that the installer kept /home intact. Now I am unable to use geany to edit remote files in .gvfs . Am able to use gedit. Do bump the priority up. Thanks.

I can open gvfs files, but it takes about a minute for them to load... not sure if this is related or if I should open a new bug? I'm using Natty 64-bit.

same here

simple Fix for me:
cd ~

ln -s .gvfs Network

and it works again

Same for me on Debian Wheezy 64 bit. The files displayed on a sftp dir in nautilus do not open with geany (geany is opened with nothing in the ui), with gedit no problem.

$ apt-get install gvfs-fuse

For each remote connection there will be a folder created in ~/.gvfs/ and geany just works. Restart may be required.

i am having this issue right now too. .. any idea why this might be caused?

I have observed the exact same issue on the Ubuntu 16.04 . Its a bit deeper than just Geany. None of the default Ubuntu programs is able to open files over the SFTP mount.