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xfce:thunar:faq [2022/12/11 11:02] – [How to hide fixed disks or user locations from the sidebar] alexxconsxfce:thunar:faq [2024/01/06 10:06] – Added info on how to preserve settings when starting as root alexxcons
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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).