[Thunar-dev] how to make thunar use umask 0007

Jelle de Jong jelledejong at powercraft.nl
Wed Sep 10 20:57:43 CEST 2008


Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Le Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:36:11 +0200,
> Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> a écrit :
> 
>> Hello everybody, I got a big issue on a multi use system that uses
>> thunar as file manager.
>>
>> The system and user umasks are set to 007 but when i create files and
>> folders with thunar it does not correspond to the given umask. Can
>> somebody duplicate this behavior and why is this and how can we fix
>> this?
> 
> You must have a problem the way you log into X.  IMHO what is happening
> is that the user doesn't have its umask set properly, unless he
> launches a session shell.
> 
> Open a terminal and run Thunar --quit.  Then restart Thunar from the
> terminal and try to create a file and a directory.  It should work as
> expected.  At least here it works fine.
> 
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Jelle
>>
>> $ umask
>> 0007
>> $ thunar -v
>> Thunar 0.9.0 (Xfce 4.4.2)
> 
> Mike

I did some more testing and thunar does not listen to the system umask
and i dont now why, I attached the screenshot to show the testing:

Somebody that now what is going on and how to fix it?

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong
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