No Nautilus Please
Thanks to Psychocats site, I have dumped my default file manager Nautilus and I am using Thunar. Thunar is a fast, clean, and easy to use Xfce File Manager. It is the default file manager in Xubuntu, but since I am using Gnome in Ubuntu, then by default I'm stuck with Nautilus. Originally, ubuntu forum member ciscosurfer started to discover a way to use this sleek file manager in gnome. Then, ultimately, psychocat made an easy-to-use script to do it.
- Download the script to your Desktop
- Paste the following commands in a Terminal:
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x defaultthunar.sh
./defaultthunar.sh
To revert back to Nautilus, download this script to your Desktop and paste these commands in your Terminal:
cd ~/Desktop
chmod +x restorenautilus.sh
./restorenautilus.sh
I prefer this over Nautilus any day. I have zoomed on my icons to make them larger and added more places/folders to the side pane. You can also configure custom actions via Edit menu. In Custom Actions I have added a right-click 'open as root' (like Nautilus) by adding the command gksudo thunar. There are also plugins you can download for Thunar. I am using the Archive-Plugin. This gives you the right-click 'Extract Here' option for archives or the 'Create Archive' for files and folders. I had to compile this plugin from source and I posted instructions on how to do this on the ubuntu forums here.
I used the install instructions from http://foo-projects.org/~benny/projects/thunar-archive-plugin/index.html
- Download the tarball from here.
- cd to the download directory, then copy the following in a Terminal:
tar xvzf thunar-*
- cd to thunar-archive-plugin-0.2.4 directory that the tarball creates and install some dependencies first or it will complain later:
sudo apt-get install libthunar-vfs-1-dev
- then still in thunar-archive-plugin-0.2.4 directory:
./configure --prefix=/usr/lib/thunarx-1
make
makeinstall
- now check in usr/lib/thunarx-1 and make sure two files are in that directory
thunar-archive-plugin.so and thunar-archive-plugin.la
(If not they are probably in the newly created /lib/thunarx-1 directory....which would be:
/usr/lib/thunarx-1/lib/thunarx-1)
if they are copy the 2 files to /usr/lib/thunarx-1 
Restart thunar and you will have the "extract here" and "create archive" on right-click menu
![[FSF Associate Member]](http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4971/getbuttonwo4.png){kind=small}
6 comments:
just switched to Thunar!
It's running 3x faster than Nautilus.
-thanks
Cool!
Ya it is so much faster. I like the "Custom Actions" option too.
Doesn't work for me..
No warning or error messages while the sh file is beeing executed. Finishes with "now Thunar should be your default file manager" or something like that, but when I open a folder, it is handled by Nautilus, no change at all..
Agree, the same thing happened to me... it just isn't changing. Nautilus still runs when I click on a folder, and any attempts to change "open with" for a folder results in me trying to click on a radio button for Thunar but not being able to... any ideas?
Hmmm not sure guys. I was running Edgy 6.10 and was working fine and now I'm running Feisty 7.04 and is working fine too.
The same thing happens to me when I attempt to access a network share...it still uses Nautilus. i don't think there is support yet for that in Thunar. But other than that Thunar launches when I access everything else (USB drives, hard drive partitions, etc).
Only thing I can really suggest is posting at ubuntuforums.org and see if you can get some help which I'm sure you will get the answer you need there.
Did this on Ubuntu 8.10 today and it works like a charme!!
The "Custom Actions" option is very cool. The one thing I really missed in Nautilus was the possibility to start a terminal within the marked folder.
Many thanks!
Post a Comment