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I want to set Thunar as my default file manager. The answers given here and here did not help me.

For instance, I already have Thunar as the preferred File Manager

thunar_default

But when I use a dialog box to open a file, I still get Nautilus:

still_nautilus

So how do I set Thunar as the default file manager?

It may be the case that I do not understand what "being the default file manager" means. What I want is to use Thunar all around, as it would be (I think) expected when one changes the file manager to Thunar.

Here is some possibly relevant version information:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:        18.04
Codename:       bionic

GNOME nautilus 3.26.4

Thunar 1.6.15 (Xfce 4.12)
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    I think your lower image may not be Nautilus but the GTK file chooser dialog which is common to all applications unless an application can use its own file chooser. (I'm not aware of such an application.)
    – DK Bose
    Jun 20, 2019 at 10:47
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    @DKBose Thanks, I suspected that I didn't understand all that was going on, that's why I made a point to include that image.
    – Sweet Shell O'Mine
    Jun 20, 2019 at 11:45
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    But that leaves me wondering, why do people even want a default file manager? The only time I use one is exactly when choosing a file in a dialog. If I want to browse my system with a GUI, I can just open the desired application directly. I see no advantage whatsoever to having it be default.
    – Sweet Shell O'Mine
    Jun 20, 2019 at 11:47
  • I see what you're saying and never really thought about it!
    – DK Bose
    Jun 20, 2019 at 11:53
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    @DKBose Libreoffice would be an example of an application that can use its own file chooser: you can indicate that in the options. Many applications, indeed, even QT applications, for example KDEnlive, nowadays neatly can use the default file chooser in a GTK desktop.
    – vanadium
    Jun 20, 2019 at 14:12

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