Questions tagged [thunar]
Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
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How to add custom action to open folder as root to Thunar?
Thunar has an option to add context menu custom actions to open Terminal, or to open folders and files in different applications.
Could it be possible to add a menu custom action that would open ...
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Thunar files view, date format "today, yesterday"
The detail view of Thunar shows the modification time as localized date (dd.mm.YYYY for my location), which is fine, but I would like to see the time, too.
And it doesn't show the recently modified ...
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Is it possible to drag and drop from a search box in Catfish?
I have many terabytes of data to sort and am using Catfish with Thunar 1.6 using Xfce 4.12 in Ubuntu 18.04.
I can find everything I'm looking for with no problem, however some files are 10 sub-...
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Thunar fails to reconnect broken ssh connection?
When I open an sftp connection to a server with Thunar, and this connection is broken for some reason (either the server kills it because of inactivity, or the connection is lost), then when I try to ...
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How to bring back alternating row colors in Thunar's list view on Xubuntu 20.04?
I've just upgraded Xubuntu 16.04 to 20.04. With 16.04, files were displayed with different colors of lines in Thunar (see the following screenshot, obtained from here):
I don't know what parameters I ...
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SSH Challenge response in Thunar or Nautilus? [closed]
So I have a project where I need to access a server with SSH that has both priv/pub key and 2FA challenge response verification enabled.
The following works:
Command Line SSH access
Using WinSCP in ...
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File explorer with behavior like Windows when you type
Is there a file explorer (or a way to get one of the famous file explorers e.g. Nautilus, Thunar) to behave like Windows when you type in a file name?
The behavior in Windows when you type a file ...
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My external drive used to be auto-mounted with a certain name, and now it's auto-mounted with another name making links not working anymore
I use Xubuntu as my primary OS (just updated from Focal to Groovy to Hirsute, but the problem I'm going to describe popped up just before the update).
I have a 4Tb external storage that I use everyday ...
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Thunar 1.8.14 - change drag and drop behaviour
I've just noticed that Thunar on my pc COPIES files when they are dragged and dropped into another folder, rather than MOVING them.
There is another answer to this question saying Thunar can MOVE ...
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How to fix tumbler: random image thumbnail sizes in Thunar
Premise
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.2
DE: Gnome 3
gnome-shell --version: 3.36.7
In normal circumstances, I prefer not to re-generate thumbnails too often, in order to spare some lifespan for my SSD.
org.gnome....
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What does Thunar's "folder permissions inconsistent" warning mean and what does the "Correct" button do?
I recently discovered that Thunar's properties dialog, for some folders, shows the warning "The folder permissions are inconsistent, you may not be able to work with files in this folder.":
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How can I run only one instance of Thunar?
I have Ubuntu 20.
I want to run only one Thunar instance for user.
I tried: wmctrl - not work, thunar window is not in result
How to do this?
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Makes "Files" the default program to open folders
I'm using Ubuntu 20.10, everything is great. I love it.
I downloaded Thunar File Manager because I want to use some of its features (mass renaming and etc). After downloading and installing it, it ...
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How install XFCE and remove gnome on Ubuntu 20.0.4 LTS [duplicate]
Was running xUbuntu 18.0.4 LTS and upgraded (re-install via DVD) to Ubuntu 20.0.4. I'd like to get back to the XFCE Desktop as it find gnome unusable for my application. In particular I have a lot of ...
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How to make Thunar regenerate thumbnails?
I have a large collection on pictures which needed cropping, color balancing, autotuning, etc. Now Thunar is showing the old thumbnails and is very confusing because i can't visually separate edited ...
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Thunar stopped working
Thunar has stopped working. I tried re-installing it.
What can I check?
andy@7_~/Downloads$ thunar /media/storagedrive/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04
Failed to register: Timeout was reached
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How to place custom icons (not emblems) on folders in Thunar
(This is not a duplicate as this question describes how to add custom icons to folders in Nautilus, whereas there seems to be no explanation for Thunar.)
In Nautilus (as this questions shows) there ...
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What does Thunar's the red exclamation mark mean?
This alarming-yet-opaque warning pictured below as the red circle background for a white exclamation point provided by the Thunar file manager, cropped up after doing a software upgrade. Upon reboot ...
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Connected through VNC with Xfce enviroment, Thunar doesn't open files. I can open them with Nautilus, but then, I can't "Open In Terminal"
So, basically what the title says.
I finanlly achieved to connect to the desktop of my Uni but I can't open files with Thunar, and when I change the "preferred application" to Nautilus, I ...
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Show transfer progress while copying files
Copying large files in ubuntu (19.10 in my case) in Nautilus, Files or Midnight Commander and Thunar to an external drive (FAT or NTFS) gives me a box that displays the progress bar without "...
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Cannot launch Thunar after upgrading to 20.04
I just upgraded Xubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 without any apparent problems. Only now I cannot launch Thunar from my Application Menu, making it impossible for me to open any folders. I tried choosing ...
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ubuntu file search in thunar
In Ubuntu 18.4 I use the filebrowser thunar instead of the low-functionally internal filebrowser (nautilus), but there seems to be no button to search in folder.
I also added a custom action like ...
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Show disk usage in Nautilus/Thunar
Is there a way (or an extensions) to display disk usage/remaining disk space, in Linux file browsers (Nautilus/Thunar) like what happens in Windows when you open My Computer/PC. I know conky can do ...
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How to set Thunar as a default file manager?
Is it possible to make Thunar my default file manager in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
I've installed Thunar and I must say there's really visible performance difference compared to gnome-shell default manager.
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"Open containing folder" in Firefox does not use my default file manager
My system default is Nautilus. But when I right-click in Downloads and choose "open containing folder", it opens Thunar and not Nautilus.
How can I change that?
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How to reset Thunar File Manager?
I am using Xubutu 20.04. I have observed that there might be some error in the Thunar File Manager. When I visit my videos folder, it creates thumbnails for first few rows, and then stops.
I've tried ...
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Confirmation prompt for thunar before closing all tabs?
I frequently use thunar with multiple tabs, however sometimes I accidentally press Alt+f4 and close the entire window when I only mean to close the tab.
I realize the keybind Ctrl+w only closes the ...
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Thunar - Custom actions: select pdf extract pages as images
I like this command to convert pdf pages to png images:
pdftoppm -png *.pdf prefix
(my source is this answer)
I would like to add a command to Thunar custom actions that would convert the selected ...
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Seek and destroy a hanging ssh/sftp session
I am using thunar to access files on a remote PC. However, sometimes the ssh session hangs, and I have to terminate thunar. Then when I try to log back in, thunar just hangs. The only solution I've ...
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Xubuntu 18.04 Thunar shows video and image thumbnails, but it doesn't show PDF covers
Xubuntu 18.04 Thunar shows video and image thumbnails, but it doesn't show PDF covers.
It did show PDF covers in the past, but no longer does.
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Add keyboard shortcut to function inside Thunar
I am trying to create a keyboard shortcut for "Create document..." subcomponent "Empty file", shown in the picture below:
It seems all the shortcuts in use by Thunar are stored in the file ~/.config/...
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Thunar does not automount USB drives anymore
Automounting USB drives used to work fine. I do not know what I changed to make it stop working.
The user account still has all groups configured, the media manager still shows the automount enabled ...
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Can I set a monospaced font in Thunar (or an alternative)?
I'm manually sorting a whole load of data files at the moment in Thunar (1.6.15), in preparation for running a script over them, so my filename convention has to be spot on, though they were saved ...
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How set default app preferences for KDE apps on Ubuntu?
I use kfind on Ubuntu. I need to set the default apps it uses to launch files it finds.
By default, it attempts to launch kde apps. I usually either don't have them, or don't want to use them.
I ...
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Add Searchmonkey to Thunar custom actions
I see here that, in order to add as custom action in Thunar the search with gnome-search-tool, the command is:
gnome-search-tool –path=%f
and with catfish it is different:
catfish --fileman=...
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Copying symlinked files to usb drive with Thunar
[I posted this to stackexchange several days ago and got no response, so I am trying here.]
I have some *.ts video files recorded by MythTV (on Ubuntu with xfce desktop). There is a script called ...
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Thunar Icons Missing
I installed thunar yesterday but on starting up this morning, I found that all of the folder icons had vanished. I'm using i3wm (but the icons were visible in i3 as of yesterday). Any idea why they ...
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Can I switch off breadcrumb navigation such that the file dialogue of GUI programs automatically lets me enter the full path?
I am using Xubuntu 18.04.
This question specifically pertains to Xubuntu (in my case: 18.04):
I frequently see myself first pressing Ctl+L in order to let the open file or the save as dialogue let ...
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Thunar Disable video Thumbnails only
Is there a way in Thunar (within XFCE) to disable displaying of Video thumbnails only and still allow Picture thumbnails?
I found this thread:
Show me only picture thumbnails
But that is for ...
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Why does Drag&Drop from Engrampa (*.tar.gz content) to Thunar not work?
There's a tooltip when dragging (see the screenshot below) but at dropping it flies back to Engrampa and nothing is done: no unzip, no untar, no mkdir(s), no copy, no sudo password dialog, no info/...
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How to change the application when opening a folder on the desktop
I want to change the default file explorer from nautilus to Thunar. I searched hours around the web and followed all the advices but nothing did work.
What my expected result is: When double-clicking ...
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Ask before running script in Thunar
Nautilus or PCManFM have an option to ask you before executing files.
Can I have that in Thunar?
I am posting this in order to provide an answer.
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How to force Thunar to default to detailed list view?
I am running Ubuntu 18.04. I would like to set Thunar to always show a detailed list view for not root version of Thunar. I can open Thunar, go into the preferences, and set the current instance to ...
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Unable to start an executable from Thunar
When I try to double click on an executable binary file to start a GUI program from Thunar, it throws the following error to syslog and does not start the program:
cannot open display: wayland-0
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Thunar sometimes transforms a folder to a file in Xubuntu 16.04, 16.10, 18.04 LTS, and 18.10
I have some scripts that creates folders by using mkdir:
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mkdir bin
cd bin
mkdir make
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It works perfectly most of the time. However, for unknown reasons, sometime, the just-created folders ...
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Software similar to nautilus-share in Thunar?
I'm looking for something like nautilus-share for Thunar, does it exist?
If not please tell me how do I share a folder in Xubuntu?
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Thunar not define "_" folders first
Why doesn't Thunar define folders with "_" first? It simply ignores and puts it in alphabetical order! Is this a setting?
It sorts folders first, but does not sort folders with "_" first than other ...
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I want to automount USB with Nautilus in Xubuntu
I have installed Nautilus in my Xubuntu 16.04. and selected it as preferred file manager in Preferred Applications.
Now the problem is that Thunar still operates in Xubuntu, for example, when I insert ...
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How to remove a default action in thunar?
I read the explanation to add a Custom Action, and how to remove them. But I'd like to remove the "delete" custom Action to keep only those I want.
Is it possible to Remove defaults custom actions, ...
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Make custom action for thunar to reduce images to 1024x768
I want to make a thunar custom action that would reduce an image to 1024x768.
This works from the command line.
convert -resize 1024X768 smaller.jpg small.jpg
I have this so far.
convert -resize ...
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