[Solved] Disable Thunar daemon at startup

rubick · 2013-02-24 19:23:42

Hi,
I have noticed that something in my system starts Thunar daemon on startup. Since I don't want the daemon to be running, i would like to disable it. I tried to search what could start it with no luck so far.

First of all I looked what is the parent of the daemon

[ondra@dell ~]$ pstree
systemd─┬─Thunar
        ├─agetty
        .
        .

So it looks like systemd is launching it. I explored /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ but there is no mention about Thunar. I also issued systemctl command to see loaded units - nothing.

I also noticed that it is launched after I login in SLiM login manager. I have searched SLiM config file with no luck. I also searched startxfce4 scritpt, which is in my ~/.xinitrc - no luck.
Does anybody have an idea how is Thunar daemon started? Thanks

Last edited by rubick (2013-02-25 11:25:30)

cris9288 · 2013-02-25 04:58:49

xfce should have it's own menu where you can tell it what to start automatically at login. I believe it's under Settings Manager >> Session & Startup or something to that effect.

swanson · 2013-02-25 06:33:57

Don't you use Thunar?

rubick · 2013-02-25 09:53:14

cris9288: I've explored Application autostart in Session and Startup settings, but Thunar entry is not there.

swanson: I use it, but I want to play with it's source code, so I have a system version of Thunar and local version compiled from GIT in my home directory. But when Thunar daemon is running, no matter which version I launch, it proably connects to daemon (of system Thunar) and tells it to display it's window (or something in that way). If I kill the daemon with

 killall Thunar

then I am able to run local version of Thunar. So I would like to disable Thunar daemon, so I don't need to do it manually every time. The second reason is that I am really curious what is starting it.

swanson · 2013-02-25 10:37:08

I see. I'm a heavy Thunar user since a long time but not Xfce, I'm afraid. But as I remember Xfce relies on config files in /etc/X11/xinit/ and/or /etc/xdg/* (autoopen and others). Take a look in those directories, might give what you need.

PS Did you try the Thunar extended version from AUR? It rocks! (It's not light but got some nice extra goodies)

rubick · 2013-02-25 11:24:44

I have found it. It's in /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml

<property name="Client3_Command" type="array">
        <value type="string" value="Thunar"/>
        <value type="string" value="--daemon"/>
</property>
<property name="Client3_PerScreen" type="bool" value="false"/>

It's strange, that I was unable to find this option in Xfce settings. It would be better to set these things in user config instead of system wide. But at least now I know what is starting it and how to disable it. Thank you.

As for extended version of Thunar, I didn't know about it. I think I will try it, thanks for suggestion :-)

samuvuo · 2013-02-25 20:18:42

rubick wrote:

It's strange, that I was unable to find this option in Xfce settings. It would be better to set these things in user config instead of system wide.

But they are. Check out ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml which gets updated when you make changes to Settings -> Sessions & Startup (as cris9288 already pointed out).

rubick · 2013-02-26 11:52:34

samuvuo wrote:

rubick wrote:
It's strange, that I was unable to find this option in Xfce settings. It would be better to set these things in user config instead of system wide.
But they are. Check out ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml which gets updated when you make changes to Settings -> Sessions & Startup (as cris9288 already pointed out).

But Thunar is not listed in "Application autostart" tab. The only way how I managed to disable it upon next login was to kill it with killall command, then save the session. Is this the way how it's supposed to be disabled?

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#1 2013-02-24 19:23:42

[Solved] Disable Thunar daemon at startup

#2 2013-02-25 04:58:49

Re: [Solved] Disable Thunar daemon at startup

#3 2013-02-25 06:33:57

Re: [Solved] Disable Thunar daemon at startup

#4 2013-02-25 09:53:14

Re: [Solved] Disable Thunar daemon at startup

#5 2013-02-25 10:37:08

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#6 2013-02-25 11:24:44

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