Distro hoping. I am trying out Mint 20 Xfce. And so far so good. I kind of like the feel and the layout of Xfce. I do miss something and it’s minor, but was wondering if the file editor Thunar 1.8.14 display can be modified. What I got is “Name Size Type Date Modified” headers. I would like to …

looks like you can set that in edit -> preferences. the very first setting is for “view new folders using:”.

i am so used to thumbnail view that i thought i should take a look at what you were talking about. it is clever the way nemo shows item count in cinnamon for directories but also size for files. i didn’t see a quick way to do so with thunar, so i ran a quick :duck: and found this fairly recent respo…

Thanks for your research @01101111 . The change does not sound easy. Just curious, in Xfce could I use Nemo as the editor or is that like changing the whole DE?

what i have read is that it is ok to install and use another file manager, but is best to not uninstall the one that comes with the de. so i believe you could use nemo with xfce just fine. i installed it on my vm to take a look. nemo on the left and thunar on the right: …

Thanks @01101111 . That’s what I did. sudo apt install nemo Then a text file mark execute on the desktop. Text file: #!/bin/bash nemo ..... This works great. So now I have 2 file managers / editors. :smiley:

nemo has been one of my favorite parts in the testing i have done with cinnamon. i read a little about nemo actions that let a user automate some repetitive tasks and even got to help troubleshoot one. i just saw today that thunar has something similar called custom actions . that’s way more than i t…

I found this interesting so I will pass it along. Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon running idle uses about 760 MB. Linux Mint Xfce 20 …running idle uses about … 390 MB. Cinnamon used almost twice as much memory sitting idle. I did not like Thunar too much and was thinking of staying with Mint Cinnamon, …

i like lightweight de’s. that’s one reason i grabbed the xfce iso’s for testing and checking out mint 20. back when i first started here and was still fairly new to linux and bodhi someone asked if a lightweight de limited the functionality of the underlying distro at all. i haven’t found that to b…

I’m running nemo in XFCE on my RPi4 8 GB, mainly 'cause I don’t like Thunar, and I really kinda hate the default icon for it too, it looks lame… But as referenced by previous posters, just leave Thunar installed, but don’t use it or run it… in XFCE, go to “Preferred Applications” setting in Settin…

[image] 01101111: i like lightweight de’s I also admire lightweight OS’s. I think it’s b/c (right or wrong) that they are more efficient and b/c the less room they take up, the more storage for me to do my work. Maybe it also due to the fact that back when I was programming in Cobol in the 7…

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