Where do file managers save their bookmarks?

Question

In pcmanfm and Thunar you can add bookmarks of folders to the left bar.

Are they stored somewhere in the filesystem as symlinks?

I´d like to use the bookmarks from other applications (terminal etc.), too.

score 20 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 11 '17 at 12:25

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Here is some new information for Thunar, it recently (probably 2015-02) changed:

edited Aug 11 '17 at 12:25

bastian

answered Apr 02 '15 at 14:20

user905686

This seems to be a still up-to-date answer. Supported format is `file:///home/user/Music Music`. – scrutari Mar 07 '23 at 15:43

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 16 '13 at 18:29

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No, (at least in pcmanfm) they are not stored as symlinks; they are stored in .gtk-bookmarks, a plain text file, like so:

file:///home/jason/Music Music
file:///home/jason/Videos Videos

answered Apr 16 '13 at 18:29

jasonwryan

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I have both PCManFM and Thunar installed. The first because my OS is Lubuntu 12.10. Thunar was installed recently. As you pointed out `.gtk-bookmarks` stores the information bookmarked by PCManFM and it is read and used by Thunar as well. – Apr 17 '13 at 01:49

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