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stephenbbb

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Registered: 2018-09-26

Posts: 10

use caja on XFCE

is it possiible to integrate caja as a file manager on XFCE and what do I need to do?
it installs easy, but crashes on certain tasks as it expects the Mate desktop.

peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 151

Re: use caja on XFCE

I have been using Thunar and Caja simultaneously for years without any problem, for me caja is slow to unmount and eject pendrives, nothing else. Apart from the same Caja, I install caja-actions, caja-actions-devel, caja-core-extensions, caja-extensions-common, caja-schemas and everything works fine...(I do it on different machines, all running Fedora and always without problems)

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

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Re: use caja on XFCE

Depends on how you're installing it and what your package manager is. On Debian, it automatically pulls in mate-desktop and a bunch of other dependencies.

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stephenbbb

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Registered: 2018-09-26

Posts: 10

Re: use caja on XFCE

Depends on how you're installing it and what your package manager is. On Debian, it automatically pulls in mate-desktop and a bunch of other dependencies.

I use linux mint and it did download the mate desktop, which I did not like. still it crashed. I use it mostly for the F3 capability and that worked, so maybe I will have to use Thunar for browing and caja for copying.

stephenbbb

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Registered: 2018-09-26

Posts: 10

Re: use caja on XFCE

I have been using Thunar and Caja simultaneously for years without any problem, for me caja is slow to unmount and eject pendrives, nothing else. Apart from the same Caja, I install caja-actions, caja-actions-devel, caja-core-extensions, caja-extensions-common, caja-schemas and everything works fine...(I do it on different machines, all running Fedora and always without problems)

on linux mint ti could not locate half of these, but the ones it found may be doing sth as it does not crash any more.
Now do you know how to replace the app called by the file manager button in the status bar menu on the left? it still start thunar, even though I made caja the default file manager.
cheers

peter.48

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From: France, sud-ouest

Registered: 2017-01-31

Posts: 151

Re: use caja on XFCE

@ stephenbbb
Try this:

create file

/home/your_name/.local/share/applications/xfce4-file-manager.desktop

and in this file put:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/bin/caja
Icon=org.xfce.filemanager
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Categories=Utility;X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel;
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
X-XFCE-MimeType=inode/directory;x-scheme-handler/trash;
X-AppStream-Ignore=True
Name=File Manager

in Fedora 36 this works, I hope it works for you too.