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sambaji

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Registered: 2017-04-20

Posts: 4

[Tutorial Link] Opening tabs instead of windows outside of Thunar

Hi XFCE folks,
XFCE is a great OS! However, it does have a few quirks. One of these quirks is how Thunar handles directories opened from the desktop or from the launcher panel with the "Places" add-on .  A separate window, a new instance, is opened for each directory, meaning that clicking "Open All' on five directories on the Desktop will open five windows of Thunar, instead of five tabs.

I created a one-window-per-workspace bash script for Thunar. I go into detail of what this small script does as will as provide a downloadable file in my recently posted tutorial at Linux Mint's forum:

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. … 2&t=244076

Hopefully, you will find it helpful.

Sam Miller

Last edited by sambaji (2017-04-20 22:38:53)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: [Tutorial Link] Opening tabs instead of windows outside of Thunar

Hello, welcome, and thanks for sharing.

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sambaji

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Registered: 2017-04-20

Posts: 4

Re: [Tutorial Link] Opening tabs instead of windows outside of Thunar

My pleasure.

rogue_ronin

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Registered: 2015-03-03

Posts: 24

Re: [Tutorial Link] Opening tabs instead of windows outside of Thunar

I just went through the recover your password email loop so that I could login and thank ToZ for this kind and thorough response.

This is the best of open source and sharing and I had to admire and acknowledge it.

Thank you, ToZ.  Just beautiful.

EDIT: I meant to post this in response to a different thread.  Over here it looks sarcastic -- I apologize.

Last edited by rogue_ronin (2017-04-30 10:15:38)