Questions tagged [thunar]
A modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
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Some Files in /usr/share/applications/ Not Displaying Icons in Thunar
Debian Buster; Xfce version 4.12; Thunar version 1.8.4 In my /usr/share/applications/ directory (viewed using Thunar), there are at least three .desktop file listings that do not display the correct ...
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sftp + thunar in Debian 12 is in a password loop
I recently bought a new laptop and installed Debian 12 + xfce environment. And I'd like to access my server (which has Debian 12) with Thunar, as I always did before. I can access my server via sftp ...
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How to run Thunar with original text when using system with different locale?
I want to ask a question related to Thunar (or even Google something), but I'm not able to see original text. I've tried to run: LC_ALL=C thunar but it just creates new instance of Thunar that ...
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XFCE: trigger desktop's right-click "Arrange Desktop Icons" from the command line or script?
I'm trying to use XFCE with Termux on Android, and the behavior of the desktop icons is a complete mess. The size of the display is dynamic (four possible configurations when using the phone, ...
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Thunar custom actions - how to import selections into zsh script
Xubuntu 22.04 Thunar 4.16 I am working on a script that works similarly to detox but does not require root privileges as it will only be allowed to operate on files or folders in the user's home ...
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Debian, Xfce: Volumes mounted by Thunar unmounted after suspend, "file exists" when trying to mount them again with Thunar
I've just reinstalled my Linux desktop, and now have a problem that I haven't experienced on Ubuntu Xfce: If I mount a volume, suspend the computer and then wake it up, volumes that were mounted ...
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Browser download location file manager is not using system default file manager
As a bit of background, I'm using Arch Linux with i3 as my window manager and I recently stopped using Nautilus as my default file manager and started using Thunar. The browser I'm using is Brave and ...
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Escape %d for pdfseparate in a thunar custom action
I want to create a thunar custom action that lets me right-click a PDF and then select "split PDF" to split it into individual pages. The command to do this is: $ pdfseparate mypdf.pdf ...
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