[xubuntu-users] Slow directory opening

[Joshua O'Leary]

On 08/06/12 13:30, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> On 2012-06-08 11:25, Joshua O'Leary wrote:
>>> I don't like thunar anyway, so I installed nautilus and called it thunar:
>>>
>>> sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/nautilus /usr/bin/thunar
>>>
>>> Now my new thunar has the option of displaying two panes, for example.
>>> (you can't uninstall thunar without removing other important packages...)
>>>
>> You could alternatively add
>> alias thunar=/usr/bin/nautilus
>> to ~/.bashrc
>>
>> That would be less permanent and for your user only.
> True, but it would only work from a bash shell, where I can simply type
> nautilus instead of thunar. In a panel item like Places or Directory
> Menu it would not work.
>
It works fine, I use bash aliases for several menu programs on my system 
- when you launch programs, they are executed through the user's 
background bash processes. If you wanted this system wide, you could at 
it to /etc/bash.bashrc. That way you wouldn't be removing / modifying 
system files like Thunar, which can sometimes have unexpected results.