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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:// | ||
+ | * [[#Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?|Why thunar forgets it's settings when run as root?]] | ||
* [[#Why doesn' | * [[#Why doesn' | ||
* [[#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? | ||
* [[#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? | ||
- | * [[#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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For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/ | For security reasons, by default Thunar only executes files of type application/ | ||
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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' | ||
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