Try Thunar – A Sleek Lightweight File Manager

By , Published October 2, 2009

Thunar is a lightweight file manager with a very light memory footprint, a less cluttered layout and pretty much all the features one needs in a file manager!

Installing Thunar does not remove Nautilus so feel free to try it and see if you prefer it.

Installation
You can install Thunar using Add/remove, Synaptic, Ubuntu Software Centre or the good old fashion terminal: -

  • sudo apt-get install thunar

Once installed you can launch it from the Applciations > Accessories menu.

How To Set Thunar As Default File Manager
If you decide that you like using Thunar and would prefer to use it for browsing your files and folders, you can set it to be used instead of Nautilus.

Download the following script to your Home folder

  • http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1115768/defaultthunar

Make it executable

  • chmod +x defaultthunar

run the script
./defaultthunar

Switching back

To revert back to nautilus as default file manager simply run the script again: -

  • ./defaultthunar
Source:-
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileManager
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Anonymous

    dude! why no d0od.co.uk?

  • Anonymous

    > pretty much all the features one needs in a file manager!

    Does Thunar have network connectivity? I don’t think so.

  • http://twitter.com/ewzzy Andrew Rayburn

    I used to use XFCE which has Thunar as it’s default. It’s a lot less cluttered than Nautilus so I thought I’d give it a try. Everything worked perfectly but it would take forever to load. I don’t know what was up with it so I changed back to Nautilus. Thanks for the easy switch back script!

  • Hou

    I would absolutely love to use Thunar but it doesn’t have sftp/ftp support!!

  • Anonymous

    You can find the defaultthunar script at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DefaultFileMa…You should put #!/bin/bashas the first line. Saving the script in ~/bin/ will put it in your PATH. Does not yet work well with RabbitVCS (see http://www.getdeb.net/ )

    As a crude benchmark, I tried running top while changing to a directory, with about 20 pictures.
    Thunar: 2% cpu 0.8% ram
    Nautilus 4% cpu 2.4% ram
    Summary: Thunar has about 1/3rd the bloat of Nautilus (highly unscientific)