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Is it possible to find out the directory Thunar is currently displaying from the command line? I will only have one instance of Thunar open at one time.
You would think so. I just tried this with Nautilus on Ubuntu 10.04. Maybe you will see something useful in this experiment.
First I started nautilus.
Second I started a terminal window under the same user account.
Third I issued the pidof nautilus command. That returned a PID.
Fourth I issued a ls -lh /proc/<pid> where <pid> is the number that was returned from the pidof nautilus command.
That showed a link named cwd, which I took to mean "current working directory". That link pointed to my home directory.
Fifth I changed the directory showing in the Nautilus window and issued the ls -lh /proc/<pid> again.
The cwd link did not change value.
Sixth I issued the cat /proc/<pid>/environ command and looked for PWD. That also showed the home directory, not the directory showing in the Nautilus window.
I just tried the same thing (well, a little differently) using Thunar in a Xfce4 session under Fedora with the same result: CWD is just the home directory. I even tried starting Thunar from a terminal after changing the working directory, but the Thunar process is started (by default) with the --daemon option, so a new window (which opens in the cwd of the terminal) still has the CWD= value in the /proc/####/eniron file (and the /proc/####/cwd symbolic link) set to $HOME, not $CWD.
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