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colapop

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Registered: 2025-12-13

Posts: 10

set thunar column width programatically

Is it possible to change the thunar column widths with a script?

I looked in the hidden settings docs but couldn't find it.

What I want to do is keep "Remember view settings for each folder" (`/misc-directory-specific-settings`) set to True, but *sometimes* I want to quickly set it to a specified layout.

Is there a file in ~/.local or ~/.config where the layout is kept? I can't find it anywhere.

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 12,406

Re: set thunar column width programatically

The values are saved in xfconf, in the thunar channel, in the last-details-view-column-widths property. However, manipulating this property value outside of thunar does not reflect any changes in thunar.

You could set the values using:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /last-details-view-column-widths -s "...values..."

...but thunar doesn't seem to listen to external changes to this property.

You could create an an enhancement request at add this functionality. There is this somewhat related request that already exists.

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colapop

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Registered: 2025-12-13

Posts: 10

Re: set thunar column width programatically

Thanks, at least I can stop trying to figure it out now!