But Dolphin isn’t the only file manager Nautilus has to be worried about – there’s also Thunar, the Xfce file manager, to complete the big three. Is it better than Nautilus as well? Nautilus is the default file manager for the Gnome desktop.

• Thunar File Manager Settings

A 'Network' entry is visible in Thunar's side bar and remote locations can be opened by using the following URI schemes in the location dialog (opened with Ctrl+l): smb://, ftp://, ssh://, sftp://, davs:// & followed by the server hostname or IP address. There is no URI scheme for shares, but Thunar can issue a mount command if you setup your properly. /etc/fstab # nas1 server nas1:/c/home /media/nas1/home nfs noauto,user,_netdev,bg 0 0 What's important here is the noauto which prevents the share from being mounted until you click on it, user which allows any user to mount (and unmount) the share, _netdev which makes network connectivity a pre-requisite, and finally bg which puts the mounting operation the background so if your server requires some spin-up time you won't have to deal with time out messages and re-clicking until it works.

Thunar Thunar is the default file manager of the Xfce4 desktop environment. It's simple, but well designed, fast and easy to use. The top most menu contains nothing more than File, Edit, View and Go entries. Bookmarks and mounted drives are shown in the left pane as icons or in a tree view, while the current directory's displayed either with breadcrumbs in Thunar's Pathbar style, or in an editable text box in its Toolbar style. The latter also adds Up, Back and Home buttons, which work just like those in Nautilus. Another similarity between the two is the choice between detailed icons, a compact list or a detailed list as views. An Open Terminal Here command is always available in the main contextual menu.

16 Apr 06 The first beta release of Thunar was released today, as part of Xfce 4.4BETA1. Regarding how Thunar becomes the default in Xfce, this can be read from the history that has been written in.

It compiles all Java files given as arguments and notifies the user of any errors with a Zenity text info window. In the Appearance Conditions dialog (not shown), I specify the file pattern '*.java' so that the action applies only to Java source files. To use the action, I change to a directory containing Java files and select them with Edit -> Select by Pattern, using the same pattern as above. I then right-click on my selection, using the new Compile Java Files action that appears in the context menu. Thunar replaces certain sequences in the command line with useful values; in this case,%F expands to a list of all selected files.

Mind that if you look for Nemo in Unity Dash, it will be shown as Files and not as Nemo. But you can distinguish between Nemo and Files (Nautilus) by the icons.

That's why we're happy to declare Dolphin the winner of this roundup, with Nautilus coming a close second. Dolphin is a very good mix of all the features we just mentioned, and then some.

It includes a panel on the left side for easy access to bookmarks and important locations, and the rest of the window is given to an actual view of the files and folders. Nautilus has recently consolidated all of its settings (for the most part) so that you can access all of its advanced features from just one location. For a more detailed look at Nautilus, you can take a look at Wsers of competing desktop environments will notice that they're using different file managers -- an important part of desktop productivity. Surprisingly, there are a lot of things that can go right or wrong with a. Thunar, the default file manager for the As far as Linux goes, customization is king. Not only that, but the customization options are so great it might make your head spin.

Thunar File Manager Settings

However, Nautilus isn’t the only kid on the block. Just recently, I took a look at Wsers of competing desktop environments will notice that they're using different file managers -- an important part of desktop productivity. Surprisingly, there are a lot of things that can go right or wrong with a., and found that it offers a lot of extra functionality compared to Nautilus. But Dolphin isn’t the only file manager Nautilus has to be worried about – there’s also Thunar, the Xfce file manager, to complete the big three.

The way to properly set this option (for the current local user) is to edit the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and add this snippet to the bottom inode/directory=Thunar.desktop so that it looks like the one I am linking below. I believe another way to set it is xdg-mime default Thunar.desktop inode/directory but I can't remember if it works exactly the same way as the method I posted above. I'm not certain if you need to logout or not for this to take effect, but it's certainly far easier than using some script, replacing binaries, or other such hackery. Windows fortran compiler. The one thing that I don't know how to change is the file picker dialog. The setting is determined by GTK but there doesn't appear to be a way to configure it. I hope this helps.:) (If after a while you decide you want the Unity quicklist for Thunar too, open up another question and I'll answer that also).

In a perfect world, it would be great, for example, if Nautilus could read Nepomuk tags entered from Dolphin, or if the KDE file manager could automatically find and use Nautilus shell scripts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First published in Issue 143 Liked this? Then check out Sign up for TechRadar's free Week in Tech newsletter Get the hottest tech stories of the week, plus the most popular reviews delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up at *.

API [ ] Thunar provides an for third-party developers: • The 'thunar-vfs' is a cross-platform API for high-level file system operations. This is for the 1.2.0 release in favor of the native.

These are only some of the reasons why PcManFM was used in LXDE, the Light Desktop Environment. This program is fast and lightweight, but still gives the user tabbed browsing, and four view modes: Icon, Thumbnail, List or Compact. It's also capable of volume management and you can drag and drop across tabs.

The in-window terminal and integration with Nepomuk for semantic searches are major advantages, and while Nautilus's Emblems system is certainly handy, we find it less flexible than the file information data that Nepomuk can handle. Both are great apps, though. Looking at them side by side, we have only one regret: why don't they share file metadata and at least their simplest extensions?

The latter is handy for those moments where you'll need more flexibility, automation or speed than a GUI-only application could provide. Sure, you can run a file manager in one window and a terminal in another, but the closer they are to hand, the faster you'll work. Other important features are direct support for search (we love find, but it's not for every circumstance) and extensibility. That's why we're happy to declare Dolphin the winner of this roundup, with Nautilus coming a close second. Dolphin is a very good mix of all the features we just mentioned, and then some.

I am trying to find a replacement for gnome's nautilus since they have radically changed the way it looks/works. Thundar seems to work very similar to the way nautilus used to, but I am having trouble with one thing - the 'View as.' Can one not select a different 'View as.' Type for each folder? It doesn't make sense to view a text folder as icons, just like it doesn't make sense to view a photos photo as a compact list. Is it all or nothing with thundar?

Or is Thunar simply continuing to be used because it has been the default for XUbuntu since 6.06? Based on the history, we should now aware that Thunar becomes the default is mainly because of Xffm was unfriendly to new users. But there is another supporting reason: the memory usage of Thunar was significantly lower than other file managers at that time., which was last accessible and archived in 2012, reported the memory usage of Thunar compared to Nautilus, ROX, Konqueror and Xffm.

The default ones are your home directory, Desktop folder, Trash and an Applications folder, which enables you launch all the applications used to manage the Gnome System settings. In general, the look and feel of PcManFM reminds us of a much simplified version of Nautilus, with a Thunar-like style, and that's a compliment. These are only some of the reasons why PcManFM was used in LXDE, the Light Desktop Environment. This program is fast and lightweight, but still gives the user tabbed browsing, and four view modes: Icon, Thumbnail, List or Compact. It's also capable of volume management and you can drag and drop across tabs. Thumbnails are present for image files, plus there are bookmarks and handling of filenames with encoding other than UTF-8.

The toolbar beneath the main menu only has five buttons: ones for the previous and next folder, links to parent and home directories, and one to open a new tab. In addition, there's the location bar and a small arrow that opens a list of recently visited folders.

I'd think your system would have to log into that account first then run some script to mount and bind mount after it has a valid connection to the source. I've not done this, it only sounds logical. Some file managers, Thundar and pcmanfm, I know have a option for network.

Learning at least a few of these can help you be more efficient. Custom Actions One of Thunar's strengths is its flexible system of custom actions. Thunar includes user-defined functions for files and directories in the File and context menus according to appearance conditions, which allows presentation of custom actions according to context. Thunar provides several of these custom actions by default, but you can add your own. To create a custom action, go to Edit -> Configure custom actions, and press the small add icon. Thunar will present you with a dialog asking you to describe the custom action and the conditions under which it will appear. In the image to the right, I describe the custom action for Java compiler action and add the command /home/hanumizzle/java-compile.sh%F, which invokes a I wrote in my user directory.

00:00:00 /usr/libexec/kde4/kio_http_cache pam 28703 1 0 May27? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pam 28876 1 0 May28? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pam 29471 1 0 Jun04? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pam 30632 1 0 May29? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver As you can see, some of these have been there for quite a while (since I cleaned both hers and mine out in May, I've been cleaning mine out for testing).

It does not create or extract archives directly, but instead acts as a frontend for other programs such as File Roller ( ), Ark ( ) or Xarchiver ( ). Part of. • Thunar Media Tags Plugin — Plugin which allows you to view detailed information about media files. It also has a bulk renamer and allows editing of media tags.

00:00:00 /usr/libexec/deja-dup/deja-dup-m pam 21071 1 0 Jun08? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/nepomukserver pam 22663 1 0 May28?

Advertisement Nautilus, the default file manager in Gnome, is extremely popular among Linux users. Not only is it easy to use, but it’s pretty common to find as it’s on all Ubuntu and other Gnome-based systems. However, Nautilus isn’t the only kid on the block. Just recently, I took a look at Wsers of competing desktop environments will notice that they're using different file managers -- an important part of desktop productivity.

In case you don’t have Thunar installed and are interested in trying it out, it should be easily found by searching in your respective package manager for “thunar”. Xfce users should already have this installed, and Gnome users can install it rather easily as both Gnome and Xfce use the GTK toolkit. KDE users should expect to see GTK-related dependencies slated for installation if they are not already installed. When you first launch Thunar, you’ll discover that it looks very much like Nautilus. There’s a panel on the left side of the window which holds bookmarks and important locations, and then a simple view of your files and folders. Thunar doesn’t have a single button to access all of its files, but rather maintains the traditional menu bar. The navigational panel is simplified relative to Nautilus, as it only includes back, forward, up, and home buttons as well as the folder path.

It supports ID3 (the MP3 file format's system) and Ogg/Vorbis tags. Part of. • Thunar Shares Plugin — Plugin which allows you to quickly share a folder using Samba from Thunar without requiring root access. See also. AUR • — Automatic management of removeable devices in Thunar. Part of. • Tumbler — External program to generate thumbnails. Also install to enable video thumbnailing. • RAW Thumbnailer — A lightweight and fast raw image thumbnailer that is needed to display raw thumbnails. • libgsf — The GNOME Structured File Library is a utility library for reading and writing structured file formats. Install if you need support for odf thumbnails Thunar Volume Manager While Thunar supports automatic mounting and unmounting of removable media ( package is required), the Thunar Volume Manager allows extended functionality, such as automatically running commands or automatically opening a Thunar window for mounted media.

Thunar is simple and lightweight by design, but its functionality can be extended through plugins. Thunar is the name of in, and uses, Thor's hammer, as its icon. Thunar's About screen logo The Thunar interface was developed prior to the coding of its core. A minimally functional software was built in. Features were added and UI elements changed iteratively to react to test user input.

This answer is based on historical sources on the Web. The history According to, Xubuntu 6.06 had included Xfce 4.4beta1 and Thunar. This release of Xfce is also the first release to include Thunar as the default file manager, replacing the original Xfce file manager Xffm (now code named 'Rodent'). Has noted the release of Thunar as part of Xfce at that time.

In addition, there's the location bar and a small arrow that opens a list of recently visited folders. The left-hand pane is divided in two parts: graphic versions of the Go and Bookmarks top menus. The Go part of this pane contains shortcuts to some predefined locations. The default ones are your home directory, Desktop folder, Trash and an Applications folder, which enables you launch all the applications used to manage the Gnome System settings.