How to use as default nautilus in XFCE?

Question

I'd like to use nautilus as default in XFCE instead of Thunar, but how can I remove full Thunar. I have already typed

sudo apt-get remove thunar gvfs-backends

But I still have problems because if I click on a folder in the desktop thunar start. Someone can help me?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Try to look at this similar question of turning your default file-manager into Nautilus:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/47208/how-to-stop-thunar-being-default-file-browser

You should be able to remove Thunar completely by running following command:

 sudo apt-get purge thunar*

Answer 2

1. Try running exo-preferred-applications from the terminal(Ctrl+Alt+t ). You should see an option to change your file manager on the 2nd tab named "Utilities".

   

   Change the File Manager option to "Nautilus".

2. Using xdg-mime, You could also run the following command to determine your current default file manager:

   • xdg-mime query default inode/directory

   • In your case, this should return thunar.desktop as a result.

   • In order to change this, run:

   • xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory application

3. You can edit the file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
   • look for the line containing inode/directory=thunar.desktop;
   • change it to read inode/directory=nautilus.desktop;