[Thunar-dev] thunar and left side favourites

[Benedikt Meurer]

daniele favara wrote:
> hi,
> 
> it would be an important feature the possiblity to add on the fly new
> stuff on left side pane , something like
> 
> thunar-?  --add path [--icon path|name]
> 
> why?
> 
> for ex this would help very much when using a volume manager:
> 
> - on device added --> thanar-? --add /mount/point [--icon usbstick] &&
> thunar /mount/point
> 
> is this possible ?

Sure:

echo "file:///path/to/whatever name" >> ~/.gtk-bookmarks

Thunar monitors this file changes (using Gamin/FAM) and will update the
display whenever the file is changed.

Benedikt