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fixit

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Registered: 2015-01-19

Posts: 131

Add the immutable attribute to files

Does Thunar have the ability to add the immutable attribute ?

Thanks.

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,815

Re: Add the immutable attribute to files

Not built-in, no. But you can use a custom action.

Assuming you have pkexec/polkit properly configured and a graphical authentication agent installed, you can create a custom action that runs this script that toggles the immutable flag for any one file at a time:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if lsattr "$1" | awk '{print $1}' | grep i; then
	pkexec chattr -i "$1"
else
	pkexec chattr +i "$1"
fi

exit 0

Use %f in the custom action to pass to the script and set it to access all file types.

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