Open urxvt in the current working thunar folder

moljac024 · 2008-05-12 17:32:23

I had a thunar custom action defined for opening a terminal in the current directory but it was opening xfce's terminal emulator called terminal

What would be the command for opening urxvt in a given directory ? sorry for the noobish question

dawn · 2008-05-12 18:04:00

I'm not sure this will help, but here's the custom action I have:

exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator

It opens urxvt. But then I don't have Terminal installed. Isn't there some menu in xfce to configure the default applications (default browser, terminal emulator, ...)? I don't remember where you can find it as I haven't used xfce for a long time.

moljac024 · 2008-05-12 19:09:24

I'm not using xfce, I'm using openbox, but thunar as file manager...

Thanks, I did it by running xfce-setting-show and setting the preferred terminal emulator to urxvt.

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-05-12 19:12:40)

koch · 2008-05-12 22:25:51

you can also use the "user-defined actions-button" in thunar and create a new entry in the right-click-menu.
i did it this way.
oh, i am running standalone-openbox with thunar exactly as you do.

moljac024 · 2008-05-12 23:25:41

Yes, that's what I was doing, I just needed the right command for opening urxvt and setting it's working directory (that I didn't know how to do)

N30N · 2008-05-13 00:17:19

To get graphical apps to use urxvt by default add the following line to your shells profile file (~/.bash_profile for bash, ~/.zprofile for zsh) and then re-login/reboot.

export XTERM='urxvt'

That should do the trick.

fuscia · 2008-09-25 03:58:26

open ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and change "TerminalEmulator=whateveritisnow" to "TerminalEmulator=whateveryouwantinstead". this has driven me nuts for two years. now, where's that #@$% whale?

moljac024 · 2008-09-25 14:27:11

Solved long ago, but thanks anyway

fuscia · 2008-09-25 22:08:55

moljac024 wrote:

Solved long ago, but thanks anyway

i was also putting it here for the next time i forget.

moljac024 · 2008-09-25 23:54:55

fuscia wrote:

moljac024 wrote:
Solved long ago, but thanks anyway
i was also putting it here for the next time i forget.

haha nice one

stonecrest · 2008-09-26 04:34:31

sh -c "cd %f && urxvt"

fuscia · 2008-09-26 11:07:06

stonecrest wrote:

sh -c "cd %f && urxvt"

can't help being ignorant: what is that?

moljac024 · 2008-09-26 12:28:04

fuscia wrote:

stonecrest wrote:
sh -c "cd %f && urxvt"
can't help being ignorant: what is that?

A shell script for entering the working directory and launching urxvt.
Try it and see if it actually works.
I think I tried something like that but wasn't successful...

Last edited by moljac024 (2008-09-26 12:28:43)

stonecrest · 2008-09-27 00:08:54

I've been using it as a custom action in thunar for a while, it works fine.

Arch Linux

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Open urxvt in the current working thunar folder

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