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Hi,
I´m happily running Arch Linux for quite some years on my Apple Notebook. But since I ran the last system update my XFCE4 desktop uses it´s default Thunar file manager instead of Caja which I configured via the default application settings. On top of that every time I connect an external monitor to my notebook and make it main the desktop icons are staying on the notebook screen. Did XFCE4 changed anything so I have to edit it´s config files? Are my settings ignored because I´m using a non admin account?
Any help is welcome.
Greetings,
Mike
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Hi,
But since I ran the last system update my XFCE4 desktop uses it´s default Thunar file manager instead of Caja which I configured via the default application settings.
How are you starting the file manager or how is it being called that thunar is coming up instead of caja? What is the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc?
On top of that every time I connect an external monitor to my notebook and make it main the desktop icons are staying on the notebook screen.
See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/362 - there appears to be a temporary workaround in the comments.
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Hi,
How are you starting the file manager or how is it being called that thunar is coming up instead of caja? What is the contents of ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc?
There is only one line:
FileManager=caja
See: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/-/issues/362 - there appears to be a temporary workaround in the comments.
Thanks for that one, haven´t found it. I will give it a shot and report back.
Greetings,
Mike
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What happens when you run:
exo-open --launch=FileManagerIf caja starts, then it should work as advertised. In which case, under which conditions (how/what) are you doing to call up the file manager?
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