

Thunar is simple and lightweight by design, but its functionality can be extended through plugins. Like the rest of Xfce, Thunar is designed to comply with standards, such as those stated at. Accessibility is accomplished using GNOME Accessibility Toolkit. Thunar is designed to start up faster and be more responsive than some other Linux file managers, such as Nautilus and Konqueror. It was initially called Filer but was changed to Thunar due to a name clash. Thunar is developed by Benedikt Meurer, and was originally intended to replace XFFM, Xfce's previous file manager. It started to ship with Xfce in version 4.4 RC1 and later. With another file manager ready, this situation is lessened by dividing the workload between two different file managers.Thunar is a file manager for Linux and other Unix-like systems, initially written using the GTK+ 2 toolkit and later ported to the GTK+ 3 toolkit.

#Thundar file manager windows#
I have encountered a few situations where Nemo would unexpectedly crash - closing all open Nemo windows and, thus, losing my progress. To have a secondary file manager available in case the primary file manager (Nemo, in this case) falters. However, if another file manager, such as Nemo, pre-generates thumbnails for the music files, then Thunar will display the thumbnails for those music files.

This seems to be a design issue regarding Thunar, so there is not a native way to resolve it. Images (png, jpg, gif) and videos (mkv, mp4) displayed fine, but embedded album art contained within music files, such as mp3 and flac, did not have thumbnails generated for them like Nemo would do. Thunar generated thumbnails for almost all media files. This directory will fill with files as media thumbnails are generated. The thumbnail files themselves are not thumbnailed (what would be the point?), which is why thumbnails do not exist for them in this directory. ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal stores new thumbnails generated by Thunar. New thumbnail files (.png) automatically appeared, and thumbnails were shown. I could see this by watching ~/.cache/thumbnails/normal populate as I traversed media directories using Thunar. To be certain that Thunar was generating thumbnails, I also cleared the thumbnail cache directories at ~/.cache/thumbnails and ~/.thumbnails.Īfter closing Thunar and reopening directories, thumbnails automatically generated using Thunar. sudo update-mime-database /usr/share/mime.To do this, I also had to perform these steps: I wanted automatic thumbnail generation upon opening a directory within Thunar. If thumbnails already exist in ~/.thumbnails or ~/.cache/thumbnails, regardless of what program creates them, then Thunar will display them. At first, I was tricked into thinking that Thunar was generating thumbnails when it really was not because Thunar will display thumbnails already generated by Nemo. Strangely, this was not enough to automatically generate thumbnails on my system. Restart Thunar by closing all instances and running thunar -q at a command prompt. Thunar preferences to enable thumbnail generation.
