• Thunar Plugins
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• Debugging Support
• Standards compliance
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Thunar is a 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 by default. Thunar starts up quickly and navigating through files and folders is fast and responsive.

• The File Manager Window – working with the Thunar window and modifying the layout
• Working with Files and Folders – basic file handling
• Using Removable Media – working with removable devices
• File Management Preferences – details of the different file manager preferences
• Frequently Asked Questions – some random things you probably want to know
• Advanced Settings – The xfce4-settings-editor, customize gtk3 css and more possible tweaks
• The UNIX filesystem – understanding the UNIX File System
• The "Send To" Menu – how to customize the send to menu

Thunar plugins can be installed as separate, additional packages in order to extend the functionality of Thunar. Most Thunar plugins offer additional options on files in the context menu or via shortcut. The interface which is used by thunar plugins is the thunarx API.

• Bulk Renamer – rename multiple files at once
• Custom Actions – custom commands associated with common mime-types or extensions
• Archive Plugin (thunar-archive-plugin) – allows to create and extract archive files
• Media Tags Plugin (thunar-media-tags-plugin) – improved support for ID3 tags
• Shares Plugin (thunar-shares-plugin) – Quickly share folders using Samba without requiring root access
• Volume Manager (thunar-volman) – Automatic management of removable devices in Thunar
• VCS Plugin (thunar-vcs-plugin) – adds Subversion and GIT actions to the context menu

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• Gnome Virtual File System – required for trash support, mounting removable media, and remote filesystems
• Tumbler – the remote thumbnail service for Thunar

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Thunar currently supports four different levels of debugging support, which can be setup using the configure flag –enable-debug (check the output of configure –help):

For some additional build & debug hints, as well check the Thunar Wiki pages.

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Thunar supports the following standards/specifications:

• XDG Base Directory Specification
• Shared MIME Database Specification
• X Direct Save (XDS) Protocol for the X Window System
• Icon Theme Specification
• Thumbnail Managing Standard
• File URI Specification
• Desktop Trash Can Specification

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Thunar depends on the following packages:

• perl
• GTK+
• GLib
• exo
• libxfce4util
• libxfce4ui
• xfconf
• intltool

Thunar can optionally be build with the following packages:

• D-Bus (strongly suggested, required for inter process communication)
• xfce-panel (required to build the trash panel applet)
• gudev (required for thunar-volman)
• libnotify (required for mount notification support)

For concrete information on the minimum required versions, check configure.ac.in

• thunar 4.21.4 released (2026/01/23 18:30)

  thunar 4.21.4 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.4.tar.xz https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.4.tar.xz?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.21/thunar-4.21.4.tar.xz?sha256 What is thunar? =============== Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. It 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. Thunar is accessible using Assistive Technologies and is fully standards compliant. Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start Release notes for 4.21.4 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] Development release on the master branch. Changelog: New Features and Enhancements: - Allow to properly merge directories (#1273)(#1762) - Preload preview images of neightb. files (#1267) - ListView: Ellipsize in middle (#1765) Bugfixes: - Prevent crash on unmount (#1778) - Fix 'delete' for folders (#1378) - Notify thumbnail cache for delete - Fix GtkTreePath leaks in thunar_details_view_key_press_event - Fix string leaks and typos in drop-descendant-files code - Expandable folders: fix multiselect with keyboard (#1500) - Fix tab-switch on new tab (#1764) - Show 'queued' message only for queued jobs (#1755) - Prevent crash on non-local symlinks (#1757) - Fix symlink resolve for desktop files (#1757) - Fix move/delete when selected files contain other files (#1749) - Cache the "smart sort" preference (#1744) - Make build with terminal optional (#1735) Maintenance: - Properly initialize struct (#1778) - Rename *_ask_replace to *_ask_for_action - Untrash: Fix warning - TransferJob: Reduce filesystem io - TransferJob: Refactoring - TransferJob: Simplification - Simplify trash/delete logic (#1761) - Prevent "set but not used" build warning - Fix g_object_unref warning - Add unit tests for "thunar_g_file_resolve_symlink" (#1757) - Do not use 'g_log_set_always_fatal' Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Asturian, Basque, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Interlingue, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan (post 1500), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazil), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Uyghur, Venetian, Vietnamese

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https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar

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• Reporting Bugs – Open bug reports and how to report new bugs

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