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Sadfa

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Registered: 2021-03-27

Posts: 47

(SOLVED) Thunar NOT updating after changing option in the XML file

Hi friends,

I change a setting in the ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar.xml file but the changes don't propagate to the Thunar application itself.

I've tried:

thunar -q
mv ~/.config/Thunar ~/.config/Thunar.bak

# Then clicking Thunar icon on the desktop to relaunch it.

But to no avail. I know that I can change it in the GUI and that works but I'd like to adopt this change on the command line.

Thanks

EDIT : --q to -q

Last edited by Sadfa (2022-06-20 19:13:17)

KBar

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Registered: 2021-11-05

Posts: 689

Re: (SOLVED) Thunar NOT updating after changing option in the XML file

You need to kill the Xfconf daemon first. This unloads the current applied configuration. This doc explains it better than I can.

Last edited by KBar (2022-06-20 11:25:54)

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Sadfa

Member

Registered: 2021-03-27

Posts: 47

Re: (SOLVED) Thunar NOT updating after changing option in the XML file

Thanks for the tip re xfconf, Kbar!

I simply went here and learned how to change the configuration of a property:

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfconf/xfconf-query

The one-liner looked like this:

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /<PROPERTY_NAME> -s <NEW_VALUE>

Solved

EDIT: Recommendation that a comment be added the XML files that says, "To access and/or configure settings, see https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfconf/start … ation_data

Last edited by Sadfa (2022-06-20 19:12:25)