How recover file lost when Thunar crashed during cut-and-paste?

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Sat Feb 20 07:50:32 CET 2016


On 01.02.2016, Ralf Mardorf wrote: 

>> Perhaps not important, but seemingly Xfe can't be used for the desktop,
>> Rodent and SpaceFM provide this feature.
>
>It's xfdesktop which handles the desktop, and not Thunar. To let
>another file manager (e.g. SpaceFM or similar) handle the directories
>on the desktop, you can edit ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc and define it
>using "FileManager=xxxx".


Instead, I'd recommend then to not edit this file, but:
[Menu] -> Settings -> Preferred Applications

Under the "Utilities" tab, change the preferred File Manager to another than Thunar....

S.


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