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Xfcelan06

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Registered: 2021-09-26

Posts: 12

Add View menu to thunar action

I found the relevant command (bash script)f or cycle between Icon
#!/bin/bash

case $(xfconf-query -c thunar -p /last-view) in
    ThunarIconView) xdotool key Ctrl+2 ;;
    ThunarDetailsView) xdotool key Ctrl+3 ;;
    ThunarCompactView) xdotool key Ctrl+1 ;;
esac

But it is not executed properly, only the last line is executed " ThunarCompactView) xdotool key Ctrl+1 ;;"
Don't work icon view and details view
Does anyone know where the problem comes from?
Thanks

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Add View menu to thunar action

If "Remember view settings for each folder" is selected, then that xfconf property isn't use. Thunar grabs the view settings from the folder's metdata:

gio info FODLERNAME | grep thunar-view-type

That xfconf property then serves as the default view as specified in the Preferences dialog.

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Xfcelan06

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Registered: 2021-09-26

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Re: Add View menu to thunar action

Thank you for reply

gio info FODLERNAME | grep thunar-view-type

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Where should I replace this command?

I'm the beginner user.
How should I change the above script to work properly?

Last edited by Xfcelan06 (2021-09-27 06:21:47)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,485

Re: Add View menu to thunar action

Try this:

#!/bin/bash 
# $1 is %f in UCA

LAST=$(gio info "$1" | grep thunar-view-type | awk '{print $2}')

if [ -z "$LAST" ]; then
   LAST=$(xfconf-query -c thunar -p /last-view)
fi

case $LAST in
   ThunarIconView) xdotool key Ctrl+2 ;;
   ThunarDetailsView) xdotool key Ctrl+3 ;;
   ThunarCompactView) xdotool key Ctrl+1 ;;
esac

On the Appearance tab, you need to select only "Directories".

There is one issue though, it won't change the view if you click on a sub-folder in thunar (e.g. the Documents folder when viewing your home directory) - it will only work if you click on the background in the thunar view for the current folder in thunar. Unfortunately, there is no way to work around this.

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Xfcelan06

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Registered: 2021-09-26

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Re: Add View menu to thunar action

Thank you
It works very well