thunarxfce
In File select menu I can quickly find my most recent files.
Look at the top left corner.
How I can choose with file open for editing.
Can I add that view to Thunar?
I know I can sort items in directory by access date. However, sometimes when I download files, I have no idea, where have I put them :D. So that view should pull most recent user-edited files from multiple directories.
According to the Xfce FAQ, you cannot disable the Trash.
They provide three suggestions, two of which which are also mentioned in the comments above:
Use Shift + del to bypass the trash bin and immediately delete something for real.
use cron to clean the trash every now and then.
or create custom action for permanent delete(like in gnome) with action: rm %f then in context menu you'll have button “permanent delete”
Personally, I use the a cron job that runs every 24 hours that calls trash-empty. You can simply call the command by itself, or give an option(in days) to remove files that have been in the trash longer than that specified number of days.
With a little digging, I discovered this is possible using D-Bus:
#!/usr/bin/env python
import dbus
import os
import sys
import urlparse
import urllib
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
obj = bus.get_object('org.xfce.Thunar', '/org/xfce/FileManager')
iface = dbus.Interface(obj, 'org.xfce.FileManager')
_thunar_display_folder = iface.get_dbus_method('DisplayFolder')
_thunar_display_folder_and_select = iface.get_dbus_method('DisplayFolderAndSelect')
def display_folder(uri, display='', startup_id=''):
_thunar_display_folder(uri, display, startup_id)
def display_folder_and_select(uri, filename, display='', startup_id=''):
_thunar_display_folder_and_select(uri, filename, display, startup_id)
def path_to_url(path):
return urlparse.urljoin('file:', urllib.pathname2url(path))
def url_to_path(url):
return urlparse.urlparse(url).path
def main(args):
path = args[1] # May be a path (from cmdline) or a file:// URL (from OS)
path = url_to_path(path)
path = os.path.realpath(path)
url = path_to_url(path)
if os.path.isfile(path):
dirname = os.path.dirname(url)
filename = os.path.basename(url)
display_folder_and_select(dirname, filename)
else:
display_folder(url)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(sys.argv)
Execute with:
$ ./thunar-open-file.py /home/user/myfile.txt
And it will still open a folder, if you pass that:
$ ./thunar-open-file.py /home/user/
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