Thunar accidentally replaced Nautilus as Gnome's default window manager!

Cyberman · 02-21-2009, 12:12 AM

I was messing around with different GUI sessions, and I wanted to try XFCE. Well, I switched to XFCE for a session, and I played around in it. When I went back to a Gnome session, however, it appears that Thunar is now the default filesystem explorer.

That's very annoying.

When I...

Places > Home Folder

I get the Thunar explorer. I want the Nautilus explorer. How do I fix this issue?

OS: Debian Sid

alan_ri · 02-21-2009, 05:52 PM

Create new folder on the desktop,right click on it > Properties > Open With > select Open Folder.

Cyberman · 02-22-2009, 03:34 PM

That didn't work, so I decided to apt-get remove thunar.
Afterwards, I tried switching over to Open Folder from what you said.
Things seem to be working smoothly now.

alan_ri · 02-22-2009, 03:54 PM

Yes,removing Thunar is something that I would suggested if things didn't worked,but only if you did log out and log back in or restarted the PC after applying the changes that I've suggested.

Yaro · 04-11-2009, 11:55 PM

What if I don't want to remove Thunar? Say I am running Compiz Fusion standalone, I JUST want the XFCE panel, but Nautilus to handle the desktop and file management. How can I fix this without removing thunar, since my main menu depends on it?