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vinox14

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Registered: 2020-05-25

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Thumbnail in Thunar as root

Hello!!! So I installed Xfce arch using zen installer, everything is working fine except I noticed that when I'm using "thunar in root" mode thumbnails doesn't show up.
Is there some configuration or setting I need to enable?

eriefisher

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Re: Thumbnail in Thunar as root

It should be automatic. Is tumberd running?

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Re: Thumbnail in Thunar as root

Automatic X11 dbus spawning was disabled in Arch linux a while back as a security precaution, and this prevents tumblerd from automatically starting in root mode when root thunar is initiated. If you try to run "pkexec thunar" in a terminal window on Arch you should see something like:

ThunarThumbnailer: failed to create proxy: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=78411821b9964bb583290cc4c33a07f3 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

The way to work around this is to manually create a one time dbus connection using "dbus-run-session". This seems to work easiest with gksu (from the AUR) and a command like:

gksu dbus-run-session thunar

Make sure that your thunar root custom action uses this command.

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vinox14

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Registered: 2020-05-25

Posts: 14

Re: Thumbnail in Thunar as root

Automatic X11 dbus spawning was disabled in Arch linux a while back as a security precaution, and this prevents tumblerd from automatically starting in root mode when root thunar is initiated. If you try to run "pkexec thunar" in a terminal window on Arch you should see something like:

ThunarThumbnailer: failed to create proxy: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=78411821b9964bb583290cc4c33a07f3 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1

The way to work around this is to manually create a one time dbus connection using "dbus-run-session". This seems to work easiest with gksu (from the AUR) and a command like:

gksu dbus-run-session thunar

Make sure that your thunar root custom action uses this command.

thank you very much!!!