Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#11 Post by wdscharff »

bpr323 wrote: Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:51 am Feel free to try out my Thunar-less MX-21 xfce ahs snapshot for a change :)
sorry, no, i don't have to look at it. Would still be an XFCE only without Thunar. And Thunar was not one of the reasons why I switched to Fluxbox.
I simply lack curiosity and time, especially considering that I don't learn anything new for my needings there.

Just as you like the xfce panel and app menu, I like the Fluxbox root menu, Tint2 and Rofi, although I have also used tint2 under xfce as a replacement for the xfce panel ;-}
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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#12 Post by wdscharff »

Huckleberry Finn wrote: Mon Nov 28, 2022 7:38 am In fact gksu was deprecated (though it still looks still installed)
Thank you, since gksu is installed, it didn't occur to me that it was outdated.

Already exchanged the command line :-)
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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#13 Post by dolphin_oracle »

on mx, gksu is a symlink to mx-pkexec, which uses policykit.
http://www.youtube.com/runwiththedolphin
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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#14 Post by Huckleberry Finn »

In fact, I knew (remember) it like that. What misguided me is that when I checked it looked like a normal file.. However I now see that it's within the (gksu) script:

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exec mx-pkexec "$@"

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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#15 Post by dolphin_oracle »

my memory bad :)

I forgot it was adjusted to be able to handle some command line switches that gksu had. it used to be a symlink.
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Re: Running XFCE without Thunar - replaced it with PCmanFM

#16 Post by Huckleberry Finn »

No :) .. just .. another way of link :)

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