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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

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How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

I'm not sure what that *feature* is called, but I've searched in Thunar prefs, Settings and in ~/.config as well as around here on the Forum and with a web search. What I'm trying to describe is when the context menu shrinks to a few items which, following Murphy's Law, routinely does not include the one I'm needing ATM (usually Open Terminal Here).

I fear this will call for yet another gtk3 code snippet, but am hoping there is a simpler solution that I'm just not seeing.

TIA

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ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

Jerry, are you talking about the bug where there are scroll arrows on the top and bottom of the context menu and only a subset of all items are displayed? Clicking on the arrows then scrolls the list to show them all.

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Jerry3904

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

Sounds like it. So it's a bug, will have to look that up. I hope the Devs focus on users next round, and add a simple check box to the preferences.

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ToZ

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

Here is the bug report. It's been fixed in recent versions of Thunar.

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Jerry3904

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

Thanks. We're running 1.8.9 ATM, so we'll consider going up.

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Jerry3904

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

Just to finish this up: we have it packaged (as a deb) and in the MX Test repo now for, well, testing.

It looks much better at first glance, so glad to know about it.

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dectruds

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Registered: 2019-12-06

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

I still don’t understand. Have you solved the bug problem?

Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

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Re: How can I kill the collapsible context menu in Thunar?

The new version of Thunar (8.11) has much improved the situation.

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