Like its namesake, Thunor, the Saxon god of thunder. Thunar does a good deal to advance the goals of its parent project: it’s fast and lean, especially by today’s standards of hardware, yet it offers rich functionality. I know I've successfully accomplished this in other distros, using even SpaceFM. One of the significant changes in recent releases of Xfce 4 is the Thunar file manager, which replaces the original xffm. Thus, my wanting to switch out thunar *completely* from my Xfce session and replace with some other file manager. But it doesn't always copy files from an ntfs formatted SD card correctly. But I would rather start caja with the -no-desktop with the session so that caja manages inserted USB drives rather than thunar.Īnd, yes, I know, thunar manages USB drives nicely. And yes, I know, I can set my preferred file manager to caja. I use this same technique in other distros to replace thunar with caja so that caja starts up with the session rather than thunar. It simply starts the caja file manager window (as if I had launched caja from the Applications Menu). The -no-desktop seems to have no effect in Xfce 4.12 Fedora 22. If I have installed another File Manager (I tried Thunar and PCManFM) Firefox automatically chooses them. Then I run Application Finder (ALT-f2): caja -no-desktop Changing wallpaper with ES File Manager 5. So, I go to Settings -> Session and Startup -> Session (tab). I want to replace the thunar file manager with the caja (Mate) file manager (and not simply reset my preferred file manager).

Thundar file manager