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Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

Thunar is a new modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy-to-use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive, and does not include any confusing or useless options. Thunar is fast and responsive with a good start up time and directory load time.

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How do I set emblems in Thunar without the GUI?

I would like to add emblems to a file in Thunar using a script, but I can't find any documentation on this. Is it possible to do this? And if so, how? The same question was asked here, but they mention a ~/.cache/Thunar/metafile.tdb file which does…
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create new directory in Thunar, when view is full of files

To create a new directory in Thunar, I can right-click on free space in the file view, and get an entry 'new directory' in the context menu. If the directory contains enough files to fill the whole view, there is no free space to click and get that…
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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 described here, but that button isn't visible nowhere…
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Custom action to set emblem in thunar

I'm on Xubuntu 11.10 and currently trying to use emblems in Thunar to mark which videos in a folder I've already watched. The problem is I can't find any terminal command to do so and neither can I change the properties of multiple files in Thunar…
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Set launch option for feh when using thunar

With the file manager Thunar, when I click on a picture, it will open it with feh. However, the picture is usually too big for my windows and I would like to scale it down automatically. This can be done with the following command: feh --scale-down…
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Thunar crashes when renaming files

When I am renaming files one at a time Thunar closes, it doesn't give an error message, it just closes all open instances of Thunar. Then I can open the GUI windows again to rename a few more files before it blinks out again! When I do a bulk rename…
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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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Thunar settings keep reverting

I set my thunar settings to view as list, show hidden files etc. Those settings are lost on a reboot. How do I repair that?
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Can't run thunar-volman

Whenever I try to run thunar-volman (from a terminal), I get there following error: thunar-volman: Must specify the new HAL device UDI with --device-added. How can I get thunar-volman to work? Or is there another way to view mounted drives in…
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Where is my "xubuntu desktop"?

I have been using Xubuntu 14.04 for some weeks now. Today I did some kind of "hard shutdown" - I "ejected" an USB stick and that took ages; and as I didn't care about the stick's content; I ran "shutdown"; but the whole system hung; so I finally…
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