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This file contains a list of frequently asked questions about Thunar and the
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appropriate answers to these questions.
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1. What is Thunar?
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Thunar is a fast and easy-to-use file manager for the X Window System, with a
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special focus on the Xfce Desktop Environment.
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2. Why doesn't Thunar execute files marked as executable?
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For security reasons Thunar only executes files of type application/x-desktop,
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application/x-executable and application/x-shellscript. For desktop files
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the execution feature will only be enabled if the desktop file is of type
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Application and a valid Exec line is given. For the other types the feature
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is available if the file is marked executable for the current user.
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Also note that for application/x-executable and application/x-shellscript, the
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types of the file don't really need to match these types exactly, but it is
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suffice if the detected type has a parent that matches one of the two types
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listed above, or if the MIME-type is an alias for one of the above.
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3. Where does Thunar store the metadata associated with files?
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Thunar uses the metadata daemon provided by GVFS.
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4. Where does Thunar store its preferences?
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Thunar stores the user configurable preferences (and hidden settings) in
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an .ini file, which is located at
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/thunarrc
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and can be examined using a text editor. See docs/README.thunarrc for an
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overview of the various preferences.
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5. How to use mouse gestures in Thunar?
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Thunar currently features basic support for so called "mouse gestures" in its
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icon view. You can use these "mouse gestures" by holding down the middle
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mouse button (usually the mouse wheel) while the mouse pointer is on the
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background area of the icon view component (any area that is not covered by
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an icon or a text). Now you can move the cursor into four directions to
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perform certain actions, which are described below.
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* Left - opens the previous visited folder
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* Up - opens the parent folder
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* Right - opens the next visited folder
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* Down - reload the current folder
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6. How do I assign different keyboard shortcuts?
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If you want to rebind a shortcut, Thunar supports the standard GTK+ way
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of changing shortcuts: simply hover over the menu option with the mouse
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pointer and press the keyboard shortcut you want to rebind it to.
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To delete a keyboard assignment, press the Backspace key while you are
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on the menu entry.
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If the shortcut doesn't change, then you need to enable the feature in
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GTK+. This can be achieved in 3 ways:
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1. If you are running Xfce 4.3 or above then you can enable "Editable
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menu accelerators" in the "User Interface Preferences" dialog.
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2. If you are running GNOME then you can enable "Editable menu
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accelerators" in the "Menu and Toolbars" control center dialog.
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3. Otherwise put the following in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file (create the
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file if it doesn't exist):
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gtk-can-change-accels=1
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7. Where does Thunar store the keyboard shortcuts?
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The custom keyboard shortcuts are stored in the standard Gtk accel map
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format in a file located at
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$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/Thunar/accels.scm
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Lines starting with ; are comments. See the GTK+ documentation for details
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about the file format. If you are a packager or a system administrator and
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want to provide a system-wide default for the keyboard shortcuts, that is
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different from the default shortcuts in Thunar, you can create a file
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Thunar/accels.scm in one of the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS. For example, if /etc/xdg
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is part of $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS (most likely for most Linux distributions), you
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can install system-wide defaults to
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/etc/xdg/Thunar/accels.scm
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Thunar will then load shortcuts from this file on first startup.
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