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jrsv

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Registered: 2020-10-12

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Send to Side Pane is grayed out

Hello forum,

I have been using xfce4 for a short while. I am using fedora 32 and for some reason I cannot create bookmarks on the side pane of Thunar, I do not know when this started, I just wanted to add one today and saw that the right click option / send to (side pane) button is grayed out.

any ideas why this would be happening?

thank you

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

Permissions?

Are you running thunar as root?

ps -ef | grep -i thunar

What are the permissions on ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks?

ls -l ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks

Also, what version of thunar is included with fedora 32?

thunar -V

BTW, welcome to the forums.

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jrsv

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

BTW, welcome to the forums.

Thank you very much

Am I running it as root?

jrsv        1292    1080  0 Oct10 ?        00:01:29 Thunar --sm-client-id 206490d76-5fb5-4804-bd38-bea4305a1919 --daemon
root       33862   33829  0 10:51 pts/0    00:00:00 sudo thunar
root       33870   33862  4 10:51 pts/0    00:00:01 thunar
jrsv       34066   34025  0 10:51 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i thunar

What are the permissions on ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks?

 -rwxrwxrwx. 1 jrsv jrsv 229 Oct  8 15:44 /home/jrsv/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks 

Also, what version of thunar is included with fedora 32?

 thunar 1.8.15 (Xfce 4.14) 

ToZ

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

Kill all of the thunar processes then run thunar as a regular user (not root) and see if it works then.

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jrsv

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

I dont know why is it running like root. I stopped thunar with the task manager and now it works, but how do I prevent thunar from running as root? when I reboot I have the same problem again

Last edited by jrsv (2020-10-13 16:35:07)

ToZ

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

Clear your saved sessions cache.
While not logged in (restart your computer and before logging in press Ctrl+Alt+F2) and delete the contents of ~/.cache/sessions.

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jrsv

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Re: Send to Side Pane is grayed out

cool, I will try it and report back. Thank you.