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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 266

Thunar shortcut

I am trying to make a custom keyboard shortcut to use in Thunar for "Find in this Folder". Thunar seems to let me set it up but instead of finding in the folder it always goes to my home folder not a search box in the current folder. I can't inset a screenshot (please enable this feature) but here is what I put, the command was inserted by thunar when I chose find in this folder:

Name Find in this folder
Description  Search for files within this folder
Command  catfish --path=%f
keyboard Shortcut Super+F

I also tried putting the current folder path in place of path to no result the path I put in was in  format /user/home/Documents/Chess

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Thunar shortcut

What happens if you run the catfish command in a terminal window:

catfish --path=~/Documents

Does it open catfish with the search folder set to Documents?

If not, are there any error messages in the terminal window or in ~/.xsession-errors?

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cmcanulty

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From: Beulah, Michigan

Registered: 2014-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: Thunar shortcut

Cool that works. My mistake was to substitute path with the actual path rather than adding the actual path after path=
Thanks!

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,486

Re: Thunar shortcut

So then your original shortcut should work. %f would be replaced with the directory name of the directory you clicked on in thunar.

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