[solved]Xfces's file manager

I need to run the xfce4 file manager as root so I can drag and drop files to and from the usr directory
I gnome I would do sudo nautilus
In xfce4 ,what would I do
I read somewhere tha it is xffm but that didn't help.
Last edited by Romanrp (2009-11-22 10:32:27)

Allan wrote:And when "sudo thunar" results in a be red massage saying "Warning, you are using the root account, you may harm your system", listen. You really should only use the package manager to touch files in /usr
No harm in dragging themes and icons into the relevant folders for systemwide access.
In fact I've changed the permissions of /usr/share/themes and /usr/share/icons to allow my user write access to save myself having to open a filemanager with root access when I want to add a new theme or icon set.

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[SOLVED] Permissions [UNSOLVED] & File manager madness...

Hi guys,
[Solved bit]
Been googling in circles and tearing my hair own over this stuff for sufficient time to warrant actually asking for help (a place I rarely end up in due to the wonderful Wiki and Google-foo)
I'm having some really odd mounting issues with two external drives. Both are formatted ext4, permissions and ownerships are all correct, yet I cannot access the drives as a normal user.
They mount fine (I've tried mounting in multiple different ways as my user - from nautilus, dolphin and space filemanagers, and using pmount and udevil from the command line), but I cannot open any folders in any file managers (even ranger), I just get a pop-up saying "you don't have the correct permissions to view the contents of foo" - yet I'm the owner, the group is users and the permissions are 660 (and I can't chmod without sudo even though I'm the owner!).
Ok, so I just tried 777 and it does work and I have full access. But surely that's not right? I shouldn't need execute permissions to read and write to a drive - by definition! WTF?!
[Unsolved bit]
The other bizarre issue surrounding this, is that after I eject a device (either graphically or via sudo umount), and have verified via lsblk that it's no longer mounted) - it remains displayed in all my file managers and errors out when I click on it (duh!).
What on earth is going on here? I feel like I'm going mad! It's probably something absurdly obvious, but I'm going round in circles here...
I'd very much appreciate any insight anyone could provide, even if does result in a revealing me to total idiot! (it wouldn't be the first time!) :-)
Last edited by knowayhack (2013-02-25 06:52:15)

Ok, so I'm afraid the file manager thing is still not solved - obviously that was a separate issue...
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Error mounting /dev/sdc1 at /run/media/toby/asus: Command-line `mount -t "ext4" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid" "/dev/sdc1" "/run/media/toby/asus"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
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[16765.967370] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 08 02 00 00 02 00
[16765.967389] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2050
[16765.967468] EXT4-fs (sdc1): unable to read superblock
[16879.565843] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Unhandled error code
[16879.565854] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc]
[16879.565858] Result: hostbyte=0x07 driverbyte=0x00
[16879.565863] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] CDB:
[16879.565866] cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 08 02 00 00 02 00
[16879.565885] end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 2050
[16879.565962] EXT4-fs (sdc1): unable to read superblock
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[SOLVED] Default Gnome File Manager

Hello,
I installed Thunar and it has become the default file manager in Gnome, how can I change this back to Nautalis?
Thanks.
Last edited by RAH (2009-02-16 20:10:26)

I am new to Arch but not quite so new to Gnome. I'm trying to do the same thing as RAH, I think. If I open Nautilus through the Applications menu as File Browser from the System Tools drawer, and then open a folder in Nautilus, the display in Nautilus jumps to the contents of the selected folder, just as it should.
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[EDIT]
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[Solved] Changing default file manager (with i3)

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I still don't get it. Maybe you could be a bit more precise in describing your problem.
Two things I think you might be after are:
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[SOLVED] Changing default file manager to thunar

How do I do this?
I do have thunar installed.
thanks
Last edited by unplugged23 (2010-05-09 00:03:58)

Yeah:
/usr/bin/thunar
EDIT: Sorry, I read your question wrong.
Go to Edit > Preferences > Applications Tab
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Last edited by itsbrad212 (2010-05-08 22:02:52)

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demolitions wrote:
I got the same problem, I observed the problem appearing with those lines in "dmesg", the same library (libpthread-2.21.so) is also present in other software errors (critical and not) since my last update (friday 24th).
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[ 587.042204] traps: xfce4-terminal[1022] general protection ip:7f6500100150 sp:7ffe14c978d8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f65000ee000+18000]
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[ 620.913826] traps: xfce4-notifyd[494] general protection ip:7fa4859a2150 sp:7fff84dd7708 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fa485990000+18000]
[ 974.008983] traps: xfce4-terminal[1384] general protection ip:7f519df84150 sp:7ffe3573e4f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f519df72000+18000]
[ 974.850083] traps: xfce4-terminal[1387] general protection ip:7f6ed57f8150 sp:7ffec58369c8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f6ed57e6000+18000]
[ 975.521687] traps: xfce4-terminal[1390] general protection ip:7f5e91d00150 sp:7ffd70179d18 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f5e91cee000+18000]
[ 979.179030] traps: exo-open[1393] general protection ip:7fbdd2a24150 sp:7ffe9e0c5608 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fbdd2a12000+18000]
[ 984.286944] traps: exo-helper-1[1395] general protection ip:7fd5d8473150 sp:7ffd53706a08 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fd5d8461000+18000]
[ 1012.318773] traps: xfce4-terminal[1502] general protection ip:7ffb62b1b150 sp:7fffd5c986f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7ffb62b09000+18000]
[ 1101.456187] traps: xfce4-terminal[1521] general protection ip:7f3285cf2150 sp:7fff3c6df158 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f3285ce0000+18000]
[ 1102.120447] traps: xfce4-terminal[1525] general protection ip:7fdd50c3a150 sp:7ffe96656ce8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7fdd50c28000+18000]
[ 1103.246180] traps: xfce4-terminal[1529] general protection ip:7f93f2b49150 sp:7ffc539d34e8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f93f2b37000+18000]
[ 1103.976302] traps: xfce4-terminal[1532] general protection ip:7f6a55204150 sp:7ffd13eb77f8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f6a551f2000+18000]
[ 1118.718286] traps: xfce4-terminal[1953] general protection ip:7efc94fb9150 sp:7ffd6f5fbed8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7efc94fa7000+18000]
[ 1160.851856] traps: xfce4-terminal[1992] general protection ip:7f39aaddb150 sp:7ffdb4478aa8 error:0 in libpthread-2.21.so[7f39aadc9000+18000]
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basica wrote:
xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory
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Solved Tnx
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Worked like a charm.

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[URL=http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=thunaroq4.jpg][/URL]
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