[Thunar-dev] Unable to use fuse-mounted file systems

[Benedikt Meurer]

Tim Tassonis wrote:
> I know have two scripts, isomount and arcmount, defined as applications 
> for ISO Images and zip files respectively, that will mount the file 
> using fuse, then launch thunar on the derived mount point and unmount 
> the file after this thunar instance closes:
> ...
> fuseiso $FILENAME $MOUNTPOINT
> thunar $MOUNTPOINT
> fusermount -u $MOUNTPOINT

This will work as long as this is the first instance of thunar, or
thunar is build w/o D-BUS support. Otherwise the thunar command will
just send a message to the running instance and terminate right away.

> Works mostly great. I get completely seamless integration of virtual 
> filesystems, with all the functionality of thunar.
> 
> Which brings me to my next question. Is it possible to start thunar with 
> some command line options for the behaviour of this one invocation, not 
> changing the usual defaults. My idea would be something like this:
> 
> thunar --sidepane=none \
>         --location-selector=toolbar \
>         --view=details \
>         --no-home-escape
> 
> meaning that I get no sidepane, a toolbar location selector, a detail 
> view and the inability to go out of the directory thunar was invoked with.

No thats not possible currently.

> Bye
> Tim

Benedikt