[SOLVED] Thunar

themeone · 10-13-2017, 03:12 AM

Under the Edit menu in Thunar, there is supposed to be an option "Configure Custom Actions" which is completely missing for me.

I have reinstalled Thunar and there are no missing dependencies listed.

I run Debian testing with iceWM window manager.

Can anyone suggest what is wrong?

trumpforprez · 10-17-2017, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by themeone

Under the Edit menu in Thunar, there is supposed to be an option "Configure Custom Actions" which is completely missing for me.

I have reinstalled Thunar and there are no missing dependencies listed.

I run Debian testing with iceWM window manager.

Can anyone suggest what is wrong?

I'm running Debian with XFCE desktop environment. When I open 'File Manager' (thunar) - I'm getting the option for 'Configure custom actions' from the Edit tab.

So it is possible your iceWM window manager isn't able to offer the option.
You could run Debian Testing in a virtual machine with a different desktop environment to confirm this.

ondoho · 10-18-2017, 01:53 AM

i run thunar under the openbox wm and i do get "configure custom action" under Edit.
it was, however, previously an XFCE environment.

themeone, you can always try to create a new user, log into that, and see if it works there.
if it does, that's an indication that one of thunars configs is corrupt.

themeone · 10-18-2017, 12:49 PM

I will try creating a new user and report back next week (currently away from the machine in question). Though if it was a corrupt thunar config file, shouldn't purging and re-installing have sorted that out?

It's definitely not an iceWM issue as all is fine on other machines running this window manager.

ondoho · 10-19-2017, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by themeone

Though if it was a corrupt thunar config file, shouldn't purging and re-installing have sorted that out?

not if that config was created AFTER installation, which usually holds true for those under your $HOME.

themeone · 10-26-2017, 07:38 AM

I have created a new user but am still missing the "Configure custom action" option on Thunar's edit menu, when logged in as the new user.

themeone · 10-27-2017, 02:41 AM

I think I have this sorted now. I did another purge of thunar, manually removed other files and folders with "thunar" or "Thunar" in the name (of which there were quite a few remaining), removed the package libthunarx-2-0, then finally reinstalled thunar and now have the missing "Configure custom action" option present and correct on the Edit menu.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

ondoho · 10-28-2017, 01:24 AM

please mark your thread SOLVED.