Thunar File Manager
Introduction
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
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.
Since thunar version 4.17.8 it is possibly to define a list of plugin directories via the environment variable THUNARX_DIRS (separated by colon)
- 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
Other Thunar Related Packages
- Gnome Virtual File System – required for trash support, mounting removable media, and remote filesystems
- Tumbler – the remote thumbnail service for Thunar
Debugging Support
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):
| Argument | Description |
|---|---|
| full | Use this if you want to debug Thunar to locate a bug. The build will most probably be noticably slower. This is also recommended for people that want to develop Thunar stuff. |
| yes | Adds all kinds of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower. Use this if you want to develop for Thunar (e.g. writing Thunar extensions and such). |
| minimum | This is the default for release builds, and presents the recommended behaviour. |
| no | Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know exactly what you do. |
For some additional build & debug hints, as well check the Thunar Wiki pages.
Standards compliance
Thunar supports the following standards/specifications:
Required Packages
Thunar depends on the following packages:
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
Latest Release
- thunar 4.17.9 released (2022/07/09 21:59)
thunar 4.17.9 is now available for download from https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.17/thunar-4.17.9.tar.bz2 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.17/thunar-4.17.9.tar.bz2?sha1 https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.17/thunar-4.17.9.tar.bz2?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 4.17.9 ======================== [Please note that this is a development release.] Development release on the master branch, shipping tons of improvements, fixes and translation updates: - Dont rely on xfconf value for menubar toggle (Issue #777) - Dont rely on xfconf value for statusbar toggle (Issue #777) - Dont rely on xfconf value for sidepane menu items (Issue #777) - Bulk renamer: Rename in multiple iterations (Issue #108) - meaningful naming for Location Selector (Issue #826) - Prevent GLib-GObject-CRITICAL when using tree-view (Issue #827) - Bulk Renamer: Allow multiple matches when using regex (Issue #230) - Fix various memory leaks (Issue #573) - Ignore escape sequences when executing launchers - Fix crash when changing tab titles preferences (#808) - Don't modify the 'exe' line in .desktop files unintentionally - Search: show symlinks in results (Issue #809) - Rename ThunarLauncher class to ThunarActionManager - Enable to switch from search entry to other UI elements (Issue #792) - Hide accel labels in launcher submenus (Issue #779) - Fix broken build with gcc7 : “declaration is not a statement” - List View: Show relative paths for column 'location' - Check for empty path property in .desktop files - Add tooltips for select by pattern dialog - Restore view-type before exiting while search is active (Issue #794) - Add menu item 'edit launcher' for '.desktop' files - Search string normalization and diacritic stripping (Issue #793) - Add border around infobar in trash (Issue #795) - Fix segfault when closing Thunar during search (Issue #789) - Respect last-show-hidden during search (Issue #785) - Allow searching for multiple search terms (Issue #783) - Handle special columns properly when ending a search (Issue #782) - Replace exo_str_* () with GLib functions - Bump up Glib dependency to 2.66.0 - Fixed folder activation during search in some cases (Issue #774) - ExoIconView search workaround: do not save the temporary view type - Fix column editor model filter logic - Show the `Location` column in `recent:\`. - Show the `Search with Catfish...` button only if catfish is installed - Tweak order of tab settings in preferences dialog - build: Fix intltool lock file problem during make distcheck - Add option to show last modified date in the statusbar (Issue #641) - Usage of glist to concatinate statusbar strings - Add configure option to set thunarx default dirs - Add configure option to enable thunarx custom dirs (Issue #771) - Sort symlinks like regular files when sorting by type (Issue #71) - Make thunar toolbar editor resizable and set a default size - Refactor thunarx module loading (Issue #755) - Add preference to disable recursive search (Issue #751) - Compact View: Optional ellipsization instead word wrap (Issue #595) - Add toolbar button to show menubar when hidden (Issue #174) - Bookmark accels not working (Issue #762) - Toolbar Editor: Default to a bigger dialog size (Issue #758) - Toolbar: Make custom actions invisible by default (Issue #757) - Dont show a checkbox for "vertical split pane" in the settings - Show as well invalid bookmarks in the bookmarks menu (Issue #582) - Remove 'Date Deleted' from 'Configure Column' List (Issue #750) - Move trash infobar to the bottom (Issue #605) - Translation Updates: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Armenian (Armenia), Asturian, Basque, Bengali, Catalan, Chinese (China), Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Eastern Armenian, English (Australia), English (United Kingdom), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Interlingue, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Occitan (post 1500), Persian (Iran), Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Urdu (Pakistan), Uyghur, Vietnamese
Source Code Repository
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar
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Reporting Bugs
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