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Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 814 Location: Toronto

I have discovered another technique to use custom icons with Thunar.

Just make file named "/root/.gtkrc.mine" and move your custom settings
over from the "/root/.gtkrc-2.0" file.

When you select a new GTK theme. The .gtkrc-2.0 file will be rewrittien,
but the .gtkrc.mine file will stay the same.

I discovered this when I installed GrumpyWolfe's thunar pet in Lighthouse Pup.

alexandrion · Joined: 19 Feb 2011 Posts: 105

you can always use lxappearance to change icons

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67160

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 814 Location: Toronto

Nice! I was going to make a simple script to switch themes instead
of manually editing the .gtkrc.mine file, but LXAppearance is way better.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=40189
Thanks alexandrion!

And thank you Barry for the thunar-w5 pet.
Both will be great additions to a new puplet that I'm working on.

pri · Joined: 09 Oct 2009 Posts: 342 Location: Bandung Indonesia

some one posted this one, will be usefull if using thunar or pcmanfm
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67160

Very Happy

ha ha.. double......

difedepe · Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 31

Hi guys,
do you know how to change the deault file manager? From ROX to Thunar?

Thanks a lot in advance.

harii4 · Posted: Sun 22 May 2011, 13:09 Post subject:

@ difedepe
Take an look at these links but rox is built in.
It sounds like if you don't use rox for icons - theses should work.

Script to change default file manager
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59903
OR
default filemanager - updated to 0.2
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15811&sid=6b00cfd802c33a8ed4d4ebef15f4f12c

turtles · Joined: 21 Nov 2009 Posts: 18

How do I get the source for this custom version of Thunar ?
Thanks

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4688

It's not custom. Get the source here: http://archive.xfce.org/src/

ikaros262 · Joined: 11 Jan 2012 Posts: 29

I have tested this .pet (from the wary5 repo at ibiblio) and works in precise, but when I try to delete a file it crashes. If I open thunar again I do see the files in the trash and empty the trash does not crash. It would be great to have this pet fully functional for precise and slacko.

eeekos · Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 4

Similar problem here. Thunar worked perfectly on Lucid 525 and 528, but crashes on Precise 5.5 and 561.

It also dies after creating a new directory or moving a file. The operation seems to succeed, I haven't seen any disk corruption, but Thunar crashes after it's done.

The console window prints this error when Thunar crashes after creating a directory:

GLib (gthread-posix.c): Unexpected error from C library during 'pthread_cond_timedwait': Invalid argument. Aborting.

When moving a file or deleting to the trash can, the above message prints, along with another one:

(thunar:17402): Gdk-CRITICAL **: IA__gdk_window_get_window_type: assertion 'GDK_IS_WINDOW (window) failed

I've tried 3 different builds:

1. BK's, http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02225 (Barry said it was for Wary but should work in any Puppy, and it did work in Lucid)

2. An official Lucid build, much larger, 4375kb

3. One from May 2010 by technosaurus at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=55921 (350k).

All three crash in Precise.

All three work perfectly in Lucid 5.25 and 5.28.

I tried Ubuntu Thunar 1.2.3 from the Precise PPM. It doesn't crash, but it has other problems.

1. It has no file icons

2. It has an annoying "Warning, you are using the root account, you may harm your system" banner across the top that won't go away

3. With all its dependencies it's a bloaty 15mb.

Can anyone help? Perhaps it's possible to borrow a library from Lucid to give Thunar what it wants on Precise?

Would it be worth trying to build Thunar from source on my own system? I found source for version 1.6 at xfce.org. Maybe that version wouldn't have the same problem (but might have different ones). I don't know how to tell it to use the Rox file icons, as Barry did, but at least I could get rid of the red "warning" banner that way.

Has anyone managed to get Thunar working right in Precise?

Pelo · Posted: Tue 14 Oct 2014, 20:01 Post subject: Thunar ok Slacko XFCE (5.3.3)

Thunar ok Slacko XFCE (5.3.3). However i will try Space FM from here.

Mayou · Joined: 17 Apr 2014 Posts: 76

luki 013 thunar does not open pet packages ! how do you do ,

Pelo · Posted: Wed 05 Aug 2015, 05:33 Post subject: open with 'petget

right-click on it should propose open with 'petget', that will install the package