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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://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunar&component=Documentation&resolution=---|file a request]]. 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://bugzilla.xfce.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Thunar&component=Documentation&resolution=---|file a request]].
  
 +    * [[#Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?|Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?]]
     * [[#Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable?|Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable?]]     * [[#Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable?|Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable?]]
     * [[#Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files?|Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files?]]     * [[#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?]]     * [[#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?]]     * [[#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?|Where are the deleted items from the trash located?]] 
-    * [[#Can Thunar display video thumbnails?|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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 +''$ sudo dbus-run-session thunar''
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 +or
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 +''$ gksu dbus-run-session thunar''
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 ===== Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable? ===== ===== Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable? =====
 For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/x-desktop, application/x-executable and application/x-shellscript. For desktop files the execution will only be possible if the desktop file is of type Application, the execute flag is set and the file is trusted. (desktop files inside ''XDG_DATA_DIR'' are executable by default). For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/x-desktop, application/x-executable and application/x-shellscript. For desktop files the execution will only be possible if the desktop file is of type Application, the execute flag is set and the file is trusted. (desktop files inside ''XDG_DATA_DIR'' are executable by default).
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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's sidebar by adding ''x-gvfs-hide'' option to the relevant partition in the ''/etc/fstab'' file or from your disk utility. [[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/blob/master/monitor/udisks2/what-is-shown.txt|Controlling what is shown in the user interface]] 
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-You can hide "Desktop", "Home", ... and default GTK bookmarks from the side pane by commenting out their entries in ''~/.config/user-dirs.dirs'' [[https://askubuntu.com/questions/79150/how-to-remove-bookmarks-from-the-nautilus-sidebar/79266#79266|How to remove bookmarks from the sidebar]] 
  
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