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- | ====== Frequently Asked Questions ====== | + | {{ : |
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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:// | ||
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* [[#How to use mouse gestures in Thunar?|How to use mouse gestures in Thunar?]] | * [[#How to use mouse gestures in Thunar?|How to use mouse gestures in Thunar?]] | ||
* [[#How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? | * [[#How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? | ||
- | * [[#Where does Thunar store the 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? | ||
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- | === Why doesn' | ||
- | For security reasons Thunar only executes files of type application/ | ||
- | Also note that for application/x-executable and application/ | + | ===== Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root? ===== |
+ | Thunar relies on xfconf to load/store its settings, the communication | ||
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+ | You can start thunar as root with dbus-session like this: | ||
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+ | '' | ||
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- | === Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files? === | + | ===== Why doesn' |
+ | For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/ | ||
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+ | Also note that for application/ | ||
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+ | Execution of binary files explicitly needs to be enabled in the [[xfce: | ||
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+ | ===== Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files? | ||
Thunar associates various settings with files/ | Thunar associates various settings with files/ | ||
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- | === Where does Thunar store its preferences? | + | |
+ | ===== Where does Thunar store its preferences? | ||
Thunar stores the user configurable preferences (and hidden settings) in an [[: | Thunar stores the user configurable preferences (and hidden settings) in an [[: | ||
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- | === How to use mouse gestures in Thunar? === | + | |
+ | ===== How to use mouse gestures in Thunar? | ||
Thunar currently features basic support for so called //mouse gestures// in its icon view. You can use these mouse gestures by holding down the middle mouse button (usually the mouse wheel) while the mouse pointer is on the background area of the icon view component (any area that is not covered by an icon or a text). Now you can move the cursor into four directions to perform certain actions, which are described below. | Thunar currently features basic support for so called //mouse gestures// in its icon view. You can use these mouse gestures by holding down the middle mouse button (usually the mouse wheel) while the mouse pointer is on the background area of the icon view component (any area that is not covered by an icon or a text). Now you can move the cursor into four directions to perform certain actions, which are described below. | ||
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- | === How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? === | ||
- | If you want to rebind a shortcut, Thunar supports the standard GTK+ way of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to. | ||
- | Read more about this in the general [[: | + | ===== How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? ===== |
- | <note important> | + | |
- | For thunar | + | Starting with thunar |
- | After that edit the accelerators located in '' | + | For Thunar |
- | ( e.g. in '' | + | Note that for some keys the ''< |
+ | Check the [[https:// | ||
- | ---- | + | If you are a packager, or a system administrator, |
- | === Where does Thunar store the keyboard shortcuts? === | + | |
- | The custom keyboard | + | |
- | If you are a packager or a system administrator and want to provide a system wide default for the keyboard shortcuts, that is different from the default shortcuts in Thunar, you can create a file '' | ||
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- | === 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? | ||
If Thunar displays the fallback icon for all files and folders, as shown in the screenshot below, it is usually caused by one of the following problems: | If Thunar displays the fallback icon for all files and folders, as shown in the screenshot below, it is usually caused by one of the following problems: | ||
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Depending on your system you might need to install the default GNOME icon theme in addition to your preferred icon theme (the Debian/ | Depending on your system you might need to install the default GNOME icon theme in addition to your preferred icon theme (the Debian/ | ||
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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:// | ||
- | 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:// | + | |