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#1 2015-12-03 03:58:41

aluminum
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Registered: 2015-12-03
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XFCE-Thunar can't open files over SSH with GVFS (fuse)

I'm trying to view a video over SFTP by opening from Thunar. In my other computers with XFCE this works fine, double-click causes gvfsd-fuse to map the SFTP to a folder and run it.

I can view the files over SFTP from Thunar but gvfsd-fuse doesn't run when I open the files, so normal applications can'd read the files (for example VLC asks for SFTP password because it's not mapped to a local dir).

in 'ps aux', there is no gvfsd-fuse listed, and 'mount' command shows no gvfsd-fuse mounts (these are present in the other operating systems with XFCE, for example you're supposed to get 'gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse'). gvfsd-fuse is present on the system as /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse.

I tried adding a system user group "fuse" and adding my user to it, but nothing changed.

What to do?

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#2 2015-12-03 04:33:23

aluminum
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Registered: 2015-12-03
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Re: XFCE-Thunar can't open files over SSH with GVFS (fuse)

The only way I can get it to run is if I do all of the following commands:

thunar -q
sudo modprobe fuse
/usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/1000/gvfs -f -o big_writes

Afterward I can launch thunar and browse a video.

Clearly something is missing, but what is it?

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#3 2015-12-03 06:11:29

aluminum
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Registered: 2015-12-03
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Re: XFCE-Thunar can't open files over SSH with GVFS (fuse)

If I do this command instead and restart, it seems to work:

echo "fuse" > /etc/modules-load.d/fuse.conf

I don't know why on earth I have to do that manually, but whatever.

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