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xfce:thunar:faq [2019/11/30 21:48] – kevinbowenxfce:thunar:faq [2020/10/04 22:02] – Added some details on shortcut keys alexxcons
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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?]]     * [[#How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts?|How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts?]]
-    * [[#Where does Thunar store the 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?]]     * [[#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?]]     * [[#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?]]     * [[#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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 === How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts? === === 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 [[:faq|FAQ]]. +For thunar 1.6.0: hover over the menu option with the mouse pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to. 
-<note important>This functionality has been disabled by GTK3 which means that thunar 1.7.0 and above do not support it any more.</note>+Read more about this in the general [[:faq|FAQ]]. This functionality has been disabled by GTK3.
  
-For thunar 1.7.0 and above you first need to quit thunar: ''thunar -q''+For thunar 1.7.0 (gtk3) and above you first need to quit thunar: ''thunar -q''
  
-After that edit the accelerators located in ''$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/accels.scm''+After that edit the accelerators located in ''$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/accels.scm'' (e.g. ''~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm'' )
  
-( e.g. in ''~/.config/Thunar/accels.scm'' )+The custom keyboard shortcuts are stored in the standard GTK+ accel map format in a file located at ''$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/accels.scm''. Lines starting with ; are comments. See the GTK+ documentation for details about the file format.
  
-[[|Back to Top]] +Note that for some keys the ''<Shift>'' modifier seems to be ignored. (E.g. ''<Primary><Shift>1'' fails, where ''<Primary>exclam'' works fine.) Most likely a gtk bug.
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-=== Where does Thunar store the keyboard shortcuts? === +Check the [[https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/gdk/keynames.txt|keynames.txt]] for a list of available keys.
-The custom keyboard shortcuts are stored in the standard GTK+ accel map format in a file located at ''$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/accels.scm''. Lines starting with ; are comments. See the GTK+ documentation for details about the file format.+
  
 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 ''Thunar/accels.scm'' in one of the ''$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS''. For example, if ''/etc/xdg'' is part of ''$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS'' (the default for most Linux distributions), you can install system wide defaults to ''/etc/xdg/Thunar/accels.scm''. Thunar will then load shortcuts from this file on first startup. 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 ''Thunar/accels.scm'' in one of the ''$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS''. For example, if ''/etc/xdg'' is part of ''$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS'' (the default for most Linux distributions), you can install system wide defaults to ''/etc/xdg/Thunar/accels.scm''. Thunar will then load shortcuts from this file on first startup.
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 +Hint: If you add a new UserCustomAction with keyboard shortcut, it will show in ''accels.scm''. Like that you can check the naming used for every key/modifyer.
  
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 installing [[http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-thumbnailers|thunar-thumbnailers]] plugin. installing [[http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/thunar-plugins/thunar-thumbnailers|thunar-thumbnailers]] plugin.
  
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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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