[xfce] Thunar - how to DISconnect from sftp?

I am new to xfce (xubuntu 11.10) and was surprised at the featureless, unfriendly Thunar is used instead of Nautilus. Apparently Thunar cannot browse network shares (and many other things) the way Nautilus can. I have read and tried numerous work-arounds but none work very well.

Hi, I've moved to the Xfce as many people says that it's faster, but first thing which I noticed was that the Thunar starts several seconds (for the first time during the session). But when I moved to the Gnome, Nautilus starts immediately when the double click is made. What's wrong there? How can I speed the Thunar's (first) start?

Thanks for help.

Hi all,

I've been using gnome for years but recently I have switched to xfce and along with it came Thunar, as the main file browser. I'm fine with it, but I dearly miss the "nautilus-image-converter" extension that enabled me to quickly resize and rotate images in nautilus.

Ok, I think I have a fix. Deleting my Thunar config files helped. But here's the tricky part:You know the "~/.config/Thunar" directory? That apparently is not the Thunar config file location. Instead, I removed "~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar*". After restarting Thunar, my Trash can worked correctly.

I found myself always holding Shift when I delete a file with Thunar (the XFCE file manager).

When I was using Windows I was always disabling "recycle bin" immediately after installation. I've looked for similar option in Thunar settings but had no luck finding it.

Do you happen to know a way?

I have a SFTP server, where clients connect every minute to exchange files. There are few clients who connect and then dont disconnect resulting in a lot of connections over a period of time. This is choking up the CPU.

I installed Xubuntu on a new laptop I got, and this being my first time using xfce, I accidentally told my dropbox folder to open with nautilus (coming from ubuntu) and not thunar. Now it will not allow me to open the folder via the task bar. Is there any way to tell it to use thunar instead?

This is a bit of a necro-bump, but interesting to see how ideas change over time...dubois wrote:Here's an answer  http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=5904  re tabbed browsing in Thunar.  From the link above (April 2011), a Thunar developer replied as follows regarding tabs in Thunar:No, we (all devs) are against it....Bad usability and there are already similar file managers

Since upgrading to 4.8, thunar takes around 30 seconds to load after a fresh boot, subsequent instances in the same session load normally.