Desktop shortcuts opened using Caja, not by preferred application

[Betelgeuze]

Good evening,
I have Linux Mint Mate Tara installed on my computer.

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$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	LinuxMint
Description:	Linux Mint 19 Tara
Release:	19
Codename:	tara

For some reasons I found Thunar as a better file manager for me than Caja, thus I set it as „Preferred Application " in the system settings. But, as I've found out, displaying of the desktop icons depends on Caja and, what is worse for me, the desktop shortcuts of folders are opened by Caja.
My questions are:

Is there any way to display icons completely without Caja?
If not. Is there a way to open folders with Thunar from the desktop?

Thank you.

[Chrisj01]

For the folders on your desktop, right click, click on "open with another program", go to Thunar, make sure "Remember this..." checkbox is ticked, then click "open".

[gm10]

If the above works, then great. As far as I recall it probably won't, thought, so what you can do instead is create launchers to point to your folders. Right click the desktop to create a launcher, keep it of the default Application type and in the command line enter

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xdg-open /full/path/to/your/folder

Related to this: If you're using the default menu (mintMenu.py) and have the places plugin enabled, then that's unfortunately hardcoded to use caja as well. I did however only just submit a patch for that which got accepted, so once released that will then respect your preferred file browser.