Thunar (xfce4) stopped starting as daemon on startx

FernandoBasso · 2016-10-22 08:53:27

All of a sudden, Thunar stopped starting as a daemon when I run the startx command.

I created another user account, started xfce, and it does show Thunar is running as a deamon.

I had this problem a few times already, and what I ended up doing was to remove ~/.config/xfce4 and configure _everything_ again...

I see Thunar is not running (and not as a daemon either by trying to do some operation on the Desktop, which gives me this error:

“This feature requires a file manager service to be present (such as the one supplied by Thunar).”

And because

ps aux | grep -i thunar

returns nothing, while it does return a line saying Thunar is running as a daemon on the fresh user account.

I also verified xfce4-settings-editor, and it seems the relevant configuration is the same on both accounts:

I took a look at /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml. Part of it is:

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

And I noticed that ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml has

<property name="Client3_Command" type="empty"/>

I then tried to copy the lines from the former to the latter, restarted xfce, and the problem still remains.

Last edited by FernandoBasso (2016-10-22 08:53:51)

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