Setting PCManFM as default File Manager

[sucrerouge]

Hello everyone,

I am really new on Linux Mint and on Linux in general. I am trying to get rid of the Thunar file manager running on "Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca \n \l", found that using the cat /etc/issue command. I 've runned through the terminal the following:

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sudo apt-get install exo-utils
exo-preferred-applications

went to Utilities and then there was nothing listed. I installed dolphin through

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sudo apt-get install dolphin

and selected it from /usr/share/applications/kde4/dolphin.desktop, then restarted but nothing changed. Then I installed PCManFM through

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sudo apt-get install PCManFM

and then in the dropdown menu the option PCMan File Manager appeared on top of the option "Other...". I restarted and then again nothing changed. Any suggestions? I also installed "kde-baseapps" cause I've read somewhere they are needed for dolphin to work properly.

Thanks in advance!

[Flemur]

Then I installed PCManFM through
sudo apt-get install PCManFM
and then in the dropdown menu the option PCMan File Manager appeared on top of the option "Other...".

Which dropdown menu?

Did you run
exo-preferred-applications -> Utilities -> Select pcmanfm
after installing pcmanfm?

If that's the dropdown menu you referred to, is pcmanfm shown as selected?

[Pjotr]

Hello everyone,

I am really new on Linux Mint and on Linux in general. I am trying to get rid of the Thunar file manager running on "Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca \n \l", found that using the cat /etc/issue command. I 've runned through the terminal the following:

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sudo apt-get install exo-utils
exo-preferred-applications

went to Utilities and then there was nothing listed. I installed dolphin through

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sudo apt-get install dolphin

and selected it from /usr/share/applications/kde4/dolphin.desktop, then restarted but nothing changed. Then I installed PCManFM through

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sudo apt-get install PCManFM

and then in the dropdown menu the option PCMan File Manager appeared on top of the option "Other...". I restarted and then again nothing changed. Any suggestions? I also installed "kde-baseapps" cause I've read somewhere they are needed for dolphin to work properly.

Thanks in advance!

Sounds like you're creating an unhealthy mess.....

Please read this:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... le-manager
(item 5.1, left column)

[Flemur]

Please read this:
https://sites.google.com/site/easylinux ... le-manager
"Don't install a second full-blown file manager"

I have thunar, pcmanfm and xfe; all run fine without any problems. Replacing thunar with pcmanfm should be easy (might need to install some extra stuff to access samba and trash...maybe).
xfe is nice because is doesn't use the freedesktop.org stuff.

OP: what's your desktop? (xfce, mate, cin...?)

[Mute Ant]

You can make an easily-reversible change to a default command by ''lying'' to the command interpreter...when I say caja you run pcmanfm...

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sudo cp -s /usr/bin/pcmanfm /usr/local/bin/caja

...for example. When next a script calls caja it's the symbolic link to pcmanfm that actually executes. On a Mate system (uses caja) all the desktop prettiness vanishes, because pcmanfm can't do what caja can with desktop decoration. I suspect pcmanfm pretty much replaces thunar though...

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sudo cp -s /usr/bin/pcmanfm /usr/local/bin/thunar

...I am guessing. If you don't like the result, just delete the symbolic link /usr/local/bin/thunar and the original will be in use again.