Questions tagged [pcmanfm]
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Default to "Execute" when double-clicking on a shell script in PCManFM
Is it possible to get an executable to execute by default?
What I mean is this. I have an .sh file, which if I click on twice, it will show me this:
If I then click Execute, it does the right thing. Is it possible to get it to Execute without…
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PCManFM Alt+Up keyboard shortcut no longer works
After Upgrading my Debian Stable to the Buster version, the alt+up keyboard shortcut (doing cd ..) doesn't work any more. Both Alt+Left (Back) and Alt+Right (Forward) work fine.
I'm using Awesome WM and I haven't set Alt+Up as a customized key…
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pcmanfm doesn't send files to trash on external drive
I have a HDD which I mount on /mnt/sda1 at startup (in /etc/fstab)
Whenever I want to send a file to the trash in pcmanfm, I get the following message :
Some files cannot be moved to trash can because the underlying file
systems don't support…
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In PCManFM, is it possible to launch and connect to a SFTP server?
For example, I know that I can use the command pcmanfm to launch PCManFM and I can also type pcmanfm ~/Desktop to open PCManFM to the desktop folder. However, pcmanfm sftp://[ipaddresshere] gives the error
[xcb] Unknown request in queue while…
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GTK3 Statusbar Height
I've recently updated a few programs to gtk3 (deadbeef gtk3 plugin, pcmanfm-gtk3, l3afpad) and there's one thing that's really been bugging me:
Why is the Statusbar thrice the height of the gtk2 version?
It's clearly not because there's more…
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How does filetype determination by filename extension in addition to XDG spec (mimeapps.list) work
I'm trying to set the default application for R noweb files but fail to find the place where this is specified. The reason for this is that my file managers seem to determine the file type by filename extension (.Rnw) rather than or in addition to…
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How do I enable thumbnails in PCManFM?
In the file manager PCManFM version 0.9.10 (in the Debian Wheezy repositories) thumbnails are generated for images but not for other file types such as PDFs and videos. Does this version of PCManFM have support for other thumbnails and if so, how do…
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How to force thumbnail refresh in PCmanFM
How can I force pcmanfm to refresh its thumbnails. I have a directory of photos in JPG format, (taken with iphone). I have rotated some of these using Ubuntu Image Viewer. When I rotate the image the thumbnail does not update. How can I force it to…
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How to use lsof to find high activity file writing?
I recently discovered that a buggy program called pcmanfm was writing 200 MB per second to its run.log file, so I had to find ways to combat that. I discovered what file it was that it was writing to in a laborious manner: du -h for various…
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How do I get applications to show up in menu://applications of PCManFM?
On Arch Linux PCManFM shows applications when I go to menu://applications in it, without a problem. I do not think I even had to configure it to do this. On Gentoo and Void, however, this does not happen out-of-the-box. Is there a way to get PCManFM…
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Free space does not increase even after deleting
I had about 170 MiB free space in my Raspberry Pi so I decided to delete the .deb packages (about 800 MiB) in /var/cache/apt.
I opened sudo pcmanfm, selected the files and pressed the delete button (not shift+delete). The files were gone, but the…
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How do I make a pcmanfm right-click desktop entry work only for the Desktop folder?
System: Host: MyComputer Kernel: 4.8.14-gnu-1 x86_64 (64 bit)
Desktop: LXQt Distro: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre
I have created the following entry:
./.local/share/file-manager/actions/monitor-settings-action.desktop
[Desktop…
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"Out of Memory" error while copying large files with pcmanfm
This is an older machine running a Debian-based distro with lxde and pcmanfm used as file manager. pcmanfm normally runs quite well, except when it comes to copying very large files (e. g. *.VOBs from an uncompressed DVD). Well, actually I thought…
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Which mountpoint paths will automatically show up in file browser under devices?
Some examples:
If I plug an external USB drive in, it will get mounted under /media/$USER/ and my file browsers will automatically list the mountpoint under devices.
The same will happen if I manually mount something into a regular…
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How to solve the error "The name :1.83 was not provided by any .service files" (PCManFM-Qt Version at Debian 11 bullseye)
When I try to connect to a remote server using PCManFM-Qt Version: 0.16.0:
"Go" "Connet to server" "Type SSH" I get the error message:
The name: 1.83 was not provided by any service files
Does did not solve to install: jmtpfs mtp-tools…
Marcos G. Bocca
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