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Friedrich

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[SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

Hi,

after re-installation of ubuntu 22.04 i have the problem that thunar isn't showing the full path in the title windows anymore. i chcked the xfce4-settings-editor -> "misc-full-path-in-title"  and the settings is 'true' - so it should work? I also found here https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/hidden-settings something different: the settings name is now "/misc-full-path-in-window-title " since 4.18.x and "/misc-window-title-style" since 4.19. I have 4.18 installed:

ii  thunar                         4.18.8-1~bpo22.04 amd64        File Manager for Xfce

i xfce-settings-editor i couldn't find anything named "misc-full-path-in-window-title"

Last edited by Friedrich (2025-05-30 05:48:26)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

in 4.18, It should still be /misc-full-path-in-window-title. You need to restart thunar (and the daemon) for it to talk effect. To confirm, what does the following return:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-full-path-in-window-title

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Friedrich

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

I have this output:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-full-path-in-window-title
Property "/misc-full-path-in-window-title" does not exist on channel "thunar".

but this works:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-full-path-in-title
true

Last edited by Friedrich (2024-06-16 07:58:53)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

The second one is not correct. Try running this command to create the proper setting:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-full-path-in-window-title -t bool -s true --create

You'll need to restart thunar (and the daemon) for it to take effect, or log out and back in again.

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Friedrich

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

Thanks. Thats works.

Friedrich

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

I've updates to xfce 4.20 and have the same problem again. Since xfce 4.19 this should work with

misc-window-title-style

but i can't find it in xfce4-settings-editor.

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

You need to manually create it. See https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/hidden-settings. It has changed in 4.19, so you now have 4 options:

THUNAR_WINDOW_TITLE_STYLE_FOLDER_NAME_WITH_THUNAR_SUFFIX (default)
THUNAR_WINDOW_TITLE_STYLE_FOLDER_NAME_WITHOUT_THUNAR_SUFFIX
THUNAR_WINDOW_TITLE_STYLE_FULL_PATH_WITH_THUNAR_SUFFIX
THUNAR_WINDOW_TITLE_STYLE_FULL_PATH_WITHOUT_THUNAR_SUFFIX

So basically:

xfconf-query --channel thunar --property /misc-window-title-style --create --type string --set THUNAR_WINDOW_TITLE_STYLE_FULL_PATH_WITHOUT_THUNAR_SUFFIX

...assuming that's the option you want.

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Friedrich

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Re: [SOLVED] Show full Path in Thunar Title bar

Thx.