do anyone know the commandline of copy_action and paste_action(thunar)

ahmeteid · 2022-10-14 11:44:18

i need to know the command line that use for the default action copy , paste and delete in thunar, does any one know that?

ToZ · 2022-10-14 12:11:09

Thunar uses GIO (Gvfs) for its file operations. The gio command exposes some of these operations:

man gio

Why would you want to use these instead of your shell commands?

ahmeteid · 2022-10-15 16:10:25

ToZ wrote:

Thunar uses GIO (Gvfs) for its file operations. The gio command exposes some of these operations:
man gio
Why would you want to use these instead of your shell commands?

thanks, i want to make cutom action copy, paste as admin, and remove as admin.
but not worked with copy,paste, i can't paste as admin, i must open folder as root

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ToZ · 2022-10-15 18:12:09

ahmeteid wrote:

i must open folder as root

Try this:

right-click and copy the file(s) you want to copy.
in the thunar url bar, enter "admin:///" (enter password if asked) and then navigate to the destination folder
right-click > paste

To delete, enter "admin:///", navigate to the folder and delete the file.

Misko_2083 · 2022-10-16 08:11:27

It's possible with D-Bus using the /org/xfce/FileManager interface.
Example is here :> https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/834
For target file use admin:/// prefix
I tried this command:

gdbus call --session  --dest org.xfce.Thunar --object-path /org/xfce/FileManager --method org.xfce.FileManager.CopyTo "/home/misko/Преузимања/" "['yt-get-master.zip']" "['admin:////home/misko/Преузимања/yt-get-masterz.zip']" ":0.0" ""

The new file is then owned by root.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10289 Sep 17  2021 /home/misko/Преузимања/yt-get-masterz.zip

@ToZ why doesn't Thunar drop root priviledges after that? Once the password is entered it does not require it to be typed again.

ToZ · 2022-10-16 10:01:13

Misko_2083 wrote:

@ToZ why doesn't Thunar drop root priviledges after that? Once the password is entered it does not require it to be typed again.

Its cached (kept) for a timeout period of 5 minutes when "auth_admin_keep" is specified in the policy action.

ahmeteid · 2022-10-16 12:53:00

the problem is that all commands are listed in gio commands, but no command for paste,
what is the command of paste in thunar

ToZ · 2022-10-16 14:29:53

I don't think there is a specific gio command to replicate what thunar does when it comes to copy/paste of files. Won't the process in post #4 work for you?

ahmeteid · 2022-10-16 23:06:13

ToZ wrote:

I don't think there is a specific gio command to replicate what thunar does when it comes to copy/paste of files. Won't the process in post #4 work for you?

the process in post 4, it worked with me , it's good , i don't know what is the deference bw it and open as root, but i notice with it , i'm still in my directory not the root directory, it's good.
if i can make custom action of it like open as root , it will be better, i mean instead of typing in url, i'm asking if i can make admin:/// as custom action what i can type the command for that?

ToZ · 2022-10-16 23:53:11

I'm not sure what you're asking - creating a custom action for admin:/// doesn't make sense. If you want a quicker way to access admin:///, you can create a bookmark for it and it will show in the sidebar. To do so, just add/append "admin:///" to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks.

ahmeteid · 2022-10-17 00:16:47

ToZ wrote:

I'm not sure what you're asking - creating a custom action for admin:/// doesn't make sense. If you want a quicker way to access admin:///, you can create a bookmark for it and it will show in the sidebar. To do so, just add/append "admin:///" to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks.

thank u very much, i added it to bookmark, it's very good now. i think that is suitable solution.
i found i can make custom action for that and name it open as admin in the current path:

thunar admin://%f

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