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The sidepanel in Thunar v4.18.8 is complete rubbish! (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by airikr@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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No favourites and different heights of the objects. And if I expand airikr in the sidepanel, all folders in that folder will be listed. It's like the developers of Thunar wanted to make Thunar a clone of Windows Explorer or something. I hate it!

This happened few months ago after an update. On the laptop, I have version 4.18.7 and there's the sidepanel completely normal.

How do I fix this piece of garbage? By downgrading? How?

I've been using the default file manager for Linux Mint Cinnamon (as far as I remember it is), Nemo. It's okay, but I do miss Thunar for several reasons.

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[–] blackjacksepp@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this how it always looked when treeview is enabled? Look for the option in the View dropdown menu.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

That was the issue! So v4.18.8 change from Shortcuts to Tree automatically. Good to know when Thunar will be updated on my laptop. Many thanks :)

[–] suprjami@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I love XFCE but I use MATE's Caja file manager on mine.

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

That one I really liked! Will try it out during this weekend. Thanks :)

[–] stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

My go-to is always PCManFM.

Yes the name sucks, but I've never seen another file manager with tabs, split view, customizable buttons, buttonizable nav bar, and have three different gui kits to choose from (Qt5, gtk2, gtk3). Really hard to beat all that.

[–] Frellwit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The different heights could be related to your custom font or theme. Does it happen on defaults?

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What I can remember, I tried that when Thunar got updated. No difference. The Shortcuts view doesn't have these different heights, so I am now happy :) Time to finally uninstall Nemo.

[–] sjosjo@mas.to 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@airikr @Frellwit you will see that one can not uninstall Nemo from Linux Mint as it is tied to the distro’s WM/DM… but you can replace the default file manager (as you probably did). Thunar rocks!

[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hm. You're probably right. When I uninstalled Nemo, it also uninstalled cinnamon-desktop. Luckily, I am using EndeavourOS Xfce 😌

Yepp! Thunar is the best file manager out there for me, and I have tried a handful of them.

[–] Shrexios@mastodon.social 1 points 1 year ago

@airikr @sjosjo personally, I prefer Nemo for one reason, it will start in two pane mode. Thunar does not.