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The intent of this section is to collect the quite numerous frequently asked questions that relate to working with Thunar. If you know of a question that is missing from this page, please [[https:// | The intent of this section is to collect the quite numerous frequently asked questions that relate to working with Thunar. If you know of a question that is missing from this page, please [[https:// | ||
+ | * [[#Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?|Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?]] | ||
* [[#Why doesn' | * [[#Why doesn' | ||
* [[#Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files? | * [[#Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files? | ||
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* [[#How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? | * [[#How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? | ||
* [[#Why does Thunar display the fall-back icon for all files and folders? | * [[#Why does Thunar display the fall-back icon for all files and folders? | ||
- | * [[#Where are the deleted items from the trash located? | ||
- | * [[#Can Thunar display video thumbnails? | ||
- | * [[#How to hide fixed disks or user locations from the sidebar|How to hide fixed disks or user locations from the sidebar]] | ||
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+ | ===== Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root? ===== | ||
+ | Thunar relies on xfconf to load/store its settings, the communication to xfconf is done via DBUS. Though for root per default no dbus-session is running. | ||
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+ | You can start thunar as root with dbus-session like this: | ||
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===== Why doesn' | ===== Why doesn' | ||
- | For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/ | + | For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/ |
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- | ===== Where are the deleted items from the trash located? ===== | ||
- | Thunar is following the freedesktop standards in this. Following the links below you can find out more of this freedesktop specifications. Read more [[http:// | ||
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- | You will find your deleted items in '' | ||
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- | ===== Can Thunar display video thumbnails? ===== | ||
- | Two possible ways. First, You'll need to build thunar with support for gconf (GNOME thumbnailers) and install one of the available | ||
- | movie thumbnailers for GNOME, i.e. Totem includes the totem-video-thumbnailer. Second, You can get thumbnails without GNOME by | ||
- | installing [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== How to hide fixed disks or user locations from the sidebar ===== | ||
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- | You can prevent fixed disks from showing up in Thunar' | ||
- | You can hide " | ||
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