Thunar is my main file manager. Normally it automatically creates thumbnail images of all images in the directory being viewed. After experimenting with other Linux distros then installing Arch Linux once and for all, Thunar is not showing thumbs.…
I've already figured out the answer, but decided to post this as a Q+A here because this bothered me for ages and it took a long time to find the solution.
Hoping this will be of use to others (or even myself) in future...
Unable to browse network…
In order to build the package 'thunar' in debian-wheezy I did the following steps:
sudo apt-get build-dep thunar
sudo apt-get source thunar
cd thunar-1.2.3/debian
sudo debuild -uc -us
Till here everything works fine. Some .dep packages are produced…
I have a directory tree with the permission for others as none. I need to change it to read.
I execute this command:
chmod -R o+r My\ Dir
However, it doesn't seem to work for directories, as apache cannot access the files within them. When I open…
When I make custom commands for Thunar with the xfce4-terminal -x command, sometimes I'd like to see the Terminal output of the command. How can I prevent Terminal from closing after the command is run?
I've tried these:
xfce4-terminal -x…
There are a lot of occurrences in which I want to name a file or directory something with the current date in it. Mostly it's temporary backups that I take every once in a while, just in case I mess up something later.
And since an exported file,…
I come from Windows background and it's very furstrating that when I start typing something, I can't use arrows, backspace, alt+arrows etc. anymore thanks to this little box in the right bottom corner:
Is there any way at all to disable it and…
I'm currently using Debian Wheezy (aka testing) with XFCE desktop environment and Thunar.
Almost all the custom actions I have created so far appear twice in Thunar context menu.
I'm not at my Linux PC right now, so I'm sure about image-, text-,…
As of recently I started using a debian-based distro called crunchbang which uses OpenBox as a window manager and thunar as file manager. I did setup Samba server correctly and can now share files back and forth on the network between my other…
I just upgraded from Fedora 11 to Fedora 15 on my laptop, and from GNOME to XFCE. The file manager has a peculiar behaviour. Most of the time, not always, it copies between different instances within the same user home directory. There is a bug…
I have GalliumOS, it's basically a Xubuntu for Chromebooks.
So, when I installed Firefox, the icon turned to a dumb theme. So I read oneline that the icon is located in /usr/share/icons, great!
But when I go there, I'm met with TONS of folders, and…
I'm using Debian testing with XFCE as Desktop Environment and Thunar as filemanager. I've an issue regarding the mounting of USB mass storages such as USB flash drive. When I plug in the USB flash drive the icon representing it appears on the…
I was looking for the gnome-exe-thumbnailer (or similar) package in Fedora 20 (which surprinsingly wasn't in the repos) but I found tumbler-extras, which I installed and almost immediately uninstalled; then Thunar was unable to generate new…
I really dislike Ubuntu's default file browser, nautilus, and decided to opt for a lighter alternative (Thunar or Xfe).
I've used the following script to change the default to Thunar, but now all my icons are gone from the desktop ! The files are…
I recently updated the default downloads directory on my Linux system by editing the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. The change seems to be reflected in most applications, including Firefox. However, the Thunar file manager's quick link to…
