Questions tagged [pcmanfm]
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Adding and removing applications in the side panel of pcmanfm
In Arch Linux, when I open pcmanfm, on the sidebar there are tabs called 'Home Folder', 'Trash Can', 'Applications', and 'Devices'.
Under 'Applications', there are shortcuts to a bunch of different ...
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Where is the grouping & list of applications defined for PCManFM-Qt?
WHAT I DO:
PCManFM-Qt > Open With ... > Other Applications
Choose Application > Installed Applications
WHAT IT DOES:
Displays a blank box.
WHAT I EXPECT:
I expect to see a tree of ...
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Which mountpoint paths will automatically show up in file browser under devices?
Some examples:
If I plug an external USB drive in, it will get mounted under /media/$USER/<device-id> and my file browsers will automatically list the mountpoint under devices.
The same will ...
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How to solve the error "The name :1.83 was not provided by any .service files" (PCManFM-Qt Version at Debian 11 bullseye)
When I try to connect to a remote server using PCManFM-Qt Version: 0.16.0:
"Go" "Connet to server" "Type SSH" I get the error message:
The name: 1.83 was not provided by ...
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File manager time to run --- why are some very slow?
Some file managers open very slow on kubuntu, bullseye 11.
I had a problem on UDisks2VolumeMonitor, so fixing this, halved the time needed to run.
(ps. UDisks2VolumeMonitor --> problem on mraid2 ...
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Focus the first Window Where pcmanfm is Running
From the command line, what is the best way to locate the first window where pcmanfm is running, and then give that window focus?
pcmanfm does not showcase it's application name on the title bar of ...
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problem with thunar after installing lxqt desktop
I have Debian 11 with xfce desktop.After i also installed lxqt desktop when i open the Thunar file manager it doesn't show two of my ntfs partitions in left panel.
But the partitions can be mounted ...
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Connecting to SFTP with PcManFM
When I run pcmanfm 'sftp://user@machine', it gives me a 'Operation not supported' error. I think I'm just missing some software for mounting sftp connection into the file system, but I have no idea ...
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How to mimic rename file operations on a backup disk having same layout?
I want to tidy my external harddrive. This harddrive is kept in sync with a backup via rsync.
When I move/rename (and delete for convinience) files on the disk, it would be nice if those fast actions ...
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How to use lsof to find high activity file writing?
I recently discovered that a buggy program called pcmanfm was writing 200 MB per second to its run.log file, so I had to find ways to combat that. I discovered what file it was that it was writing to ...
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Why are file managers not using top-dir trash dirs?
I'm making a FUSE filesystem with fusepy and I want to give a special meaning to deletion. I'd like to intercept moves to trash too. For this I would like file managers to use the trash dirs at the ...
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PCManFM reverts back to icon view even after setting default to list view
I have configured PCManFM to use "list" view by default; however, it reverts back to "icon" view on its own.
This is my configuration:
~/.config/pcmanfm/default/pcmanfm.conf
[config]
bm_open_method=...
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PCManFM Alt+Up keyboard shortcut no longer works
After Upgrading my Debian Stable to the Buster version, the alt+up keyboard shortcut (doing cd ..) doesn't work any more. Both Alt+Left (Back) and Alt+Right (Forward) work fine.
I'm using Awesome WM ...
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Debian 9: USB-volumes are not displayed in PCManFM-Qt's sidebar
I run Debian 9 with LXQt what is completely fine. However, attached USB-volumes are not getting displayed in the PCManFM-Qt sidebar in category Devices intended for that (see screenshot).
Which ...
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mouse-pointer symbol "background activity"
I´ve got a question concerning my mouse-pointer.
From time to time my mouse-pointer changes to a symbol that represents something like an arrow melted together with a loading-circle.
I tried to find ...
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How do I get applications to show up in menu://applications of PCManFM?
On Arch Linux PCManFM shows applications when I go to menu://applications in it, without a problem. I do not think I even had to configure it to do this. On Gentoo and Void, however, this does not ...
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How to force thumbnail refresh in PCmanFM
How can I force pcmanfm to refresh its thumbnails. I have a directory of photos in JPG format, (taken with iphone). I have rotated some of these using Ubuntu Image Viewer. When I rotate the image the ...
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pcmanfm doesn't send files to trash on external drive
I have a HDD which I mount on /mnt/sda1 at startup (in /etc/fstab)
Whenever I want to send a file to the trash in pcmanfm, I get the following message :
Some files cannot be moved to trash can ...
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lUbuntu: File manager no longer shows other partitions
I hope I don't end up kicking myself for an obvious answer here, but in lubuntu 17.04(zesty) I cannot find the "other places"(as in the other partitions on my system, like Windows) anywhere in the ...
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Openbox/PCManFM/LXDE, how can I assign the middle mouse button as Alt+F11 fullscreen?
I'm using Openbox/PCManFM/LXDE in a Linux distro based on Ubuntu 16.04.1 (LXLE) and I want the middle button of my mouse to do exactly the same as Alt+F11 does (ToggleFullScreen) in every application. ...
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In PCManFM, is it possible to launch and connect to a SFTP server?
For example, I know that I can use the command pcmanfm to launch PCManFM and I can also type pcmanfm ~/Desktop to open PCManFM to the desktop folder. However, pcmanfm sftp://[ipaddresshere] gives the ...
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PCManFM always pops under
Whenever PCManFM opens (Linux Mint 18.1 MATE x64, set as default in the preferences), be it from "Show in Folder" from a download in Chromium, or simply clicking a quick launch icon, it opens ...
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Why PCManFM-Qt custom actions are not working
I'm trying to add some custom actions to the PCManFM-Qt contextual menu from this guide on Manjaro wiki. https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=CUSTOM_ACTIONS_FOR_PCmanFM-Qt
Unfortunately none of ...
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Free space does not increase even after deleting
I had about 170 MiB free space in my Raspberry Pi so I decided to delete the .deb packages (about 800 MiB) in /var/cache/apt.
I opened sudo pcmanfm, selected the files and pressed the delete button (...
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How do I make a pcmanfm right-click desktop entry work only for the Desktop folder?
System: Host: MyComputer Kernel: 4.8.14-gnu-1 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: LXQt Distro: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
I have created the following entry:
./.local/share/file-manager/actions/...
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PCManFM: edit the list of applications available on auto-mount
The file manager PCManFM has an option (enabled by default) to ask what to do with inserted/mounted volumes (cd, dvds, iso files etc) which is lacking in elementry OS' file manager. That's why I m ...
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Why doesn't Disk Image Writer work?
I use the file manager PCManFM in Debian 8 (Stable). When I right-click on a disk image file and select Disk Image Writer, an error message is displayed on the standard error stream saying that the ...
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GTK3 Statusbar Height
I've recently updated a few programs to gtk3 (deadbeef gtk3 plugin, pcmanfm-gtk3, l3afpad) and there's one thing that's really been bugging me:
Why is the Statusbar thrice the height of the gtk2 ...
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How does filetype determination by filename extension in addition to XDG spec (mimeapps.list) work
I'm trying to set the default application for R noweb files but fail to find the place where this is specified. The reason for this is that my file managers seem to determine the file type by filename ...
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How to hide files of a certain extension in PCManFM
I use latex in my work a lot. Compiling a latex file generates a lot of intermediate files with .log, .aux extensions. To avoid clutter, I would like to hide these intermediate files. Is there a way ...
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Disable Right Click on file (Openbox, LXDE, Pcmanfm)
I want to disable the right click on a file. It's possible?
I'm actually using Openbox, LXDE and PcManFM.
I had disable the right click to open the menu on the desktop but I want to disable the ...
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How do I enable thumbnails in PCManFM?
In the file manager PCManFM version 0.9.10 (in the Debian Wheezy repositories) thumbnails are generated for images but not for other file types such as PDFs and videos. Does this version of PCManFM ...
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Allowing normal user to mount and eject devices
In the file manager PCManFM I can access discs in my USB DVD drive but I cannot eject them or access other USB storage devices - I get the error message "Not Authorized". Any clues?
I use Debian 7.7....
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Default to "Execute" when double-clicking on a shell script in PCManFM
Is it possible to get an executable to execute by default?
What I mean is this. I have an .sh file, which if I click on twice, it will show me this:
If I then click Execute, it does the right thing....
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Can only browse files mounted via gvfs, not open them
I have a new Arch Linux installation using awesome wm and no desktop environment. If I put smb://server/share as a URI on pcmanfm, the mount succeeds after prompting me for my credentials, and I can ...
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"Out of Memory" error while copying large files with pcmanfm
This is an older machine running a Debian-based distro with lxde and pcmanfm used as file manager. pcmanfm normally runs quite well, except when it comes to copying very large files (e. g. *.VOBs from ...
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