xubuntu: Can Thunar NOT start background stuff?

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:23:29 -0500
"Tommy Trussell" <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:

> The default file manager for xfce seems to be Thunar. I'm not sure
> what it was before-- there was xffm which was OK but there was another
> one that I used more and now I'll have to dig through my backups
> because I cannot remember what it was called...

The Ubuntu version of xfce4 used to use rox-filer ( which happens to be my
favourite file manager) :-)

You can install it with "sudo aptitude install rox-filer " ( or apt-get or
synaptic etc of course ) It is in the universe repository. Note that you
can make it change themes and icons by right clicking, selecting
Options-Types and selecting your preferred icon theme.

As you probably know, it is highly configurable. The "Help" function is
*actually helpful* , amazingly enough < insert appropriate emoticon here
> .

Peter :-)