Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. Thunar has been designed from the ground up to be fast and easy to use. Its user interface is clean and intuitive and does not include any confusing or useless options by default. Thunar starts up quickly and navigating through files and folders is fast and responsive.
Thunar plugins can be installed as separate, additional packages in order to extend the functionality of Thunar. Most Thunar plugins offer additional options on files in the context menu or via shortcut. The interface which is used by thunar plugins is the thunarx API.
Thunar currently supports four different levels of debugging support, which can be setup using the configure flag –enable-debug
(check the output of configure –help
):
Argument | Description |
---|---|
full | Use this if you want to debug Thunar to locate a bug. The build will most probably be noticably slower. This is also recommended for people that want to develop Thunar stuff. |
yes | Adds all kinds of checks to the code, and is therefore likely to run slower. Use this if you want to develop for Thunar (e.g. writing Thunar extensions and such). |
minimum | This is the default for release builds, and presents the recommended behaviour. |
no | Disables all sanity checks. Don't use this unless you know exactly what you do. |
For some additional build & debug hints, as well check the Thunar Wiki pages.
Thunar supports the following standards/specifications:
Thunar depends on the following packages:
Thunar can optionally be build with the following packages:
For concrete information on the minimum required versions, check configure.ac.in
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar
For additional build, test and debugging tips, see this page for more suggestions.