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Armacadia

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Registered: 2026-07-29

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Is there a way to add an entry to the disks context menu with Thunar?

I would like an option to mount disks read only in the menu that pops up when I right click disks on the desktop or in file manager windows. Don't need that to be the default behavior, only as an option. Is that possible by editing configuration files somewhere or would I need to modify the source?
Using a somewhat dated version of XFCE here (as provided by Debian 12), can't upgrade just yet as I need a fully 32-bit system, sorry if something has changed since then

ToZ

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Re: Is there a way to add an entry to the disks context menu with Thunar?

Unfortunately, its not possible. You'll need to ask the developer to consider this an enhancement: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/boards.

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Armacadia

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Registered: 2026-07-29

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Re: Is there a way to add an entry to the disks context menu with Thunar?

Found this issue: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/work_items/867

JmaCWQ

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Registered: 2022-12-06

Posts: 86

Re: Is there a way to add an entry to the disks context menu with Thunar?

Maybe a Thunar custom action?
Pretty sure volumes can be mounted read only by terminal commands, possibly that could be adapted to a custom action, or perhaps the custom action could run a script that does the mounting?