topic title: Replace Thunar with PcManFM / LXDE
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luc0zade
Joined: 01 Jun 2011
#1
Hi, apologies if this issue is answered elsewhere but I would like to know the current status of PcManFM and the LXDE desktop available in M11.

After reading various discussions about the relative merits of the Thunar user interface and trying it out myself, I've decided I still prefer PcManFM as used in AntiX 8.5.

So is it possible to replace Thunar with PcManFM in AntiX M11?

I can see there was a discussion just after 22:00 GMT last night in the Shoutbox above between rokytnji and anticapitalista about current problems in Debian with PcManFM 0.9 and LXDE.

Does this mean that at the moment it's not possible to use PcManFM with M11?

Does PcManFM only work with the LXDE desktop? Is the LXDE desktop also broken?

Or is there a way of installing the old 0.5 release of PcManFM instead?
anticapitalista
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Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
You can simply install pcmanfm from the repos and remove thunar if you wish.
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luc0zade
Joined: 01 Jun 2011
#3
Okay, I got worried when I saw this comment in the Shoutbox, which seemed to suggest PCManFM was completely broken at the moment...
rokytnji « Tue May 31, 2011 11:01 pm »
I have thunar and rox installed becausepcmanfm is broke in lxde also. Does not show files in right order
If PCManFM is working alright with the default desktop, I won't bother installing LXDE.

Thanks for checking this and many thanks for producing such a stable and usable distribution!
anticapitalista
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#4
Enjoy!

You may find that pcmanfm works ok for you. Let us know if there are issues.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#5
My problem with pcmanfm is only with LXDE Desktop. My other installs using Icewm and Fluxbox with Pcmanfm have no issues. Seems that LXDE being Siamesed with pcmanfm may be the culprit of my problems with pcmanfm as I have found
some bugs/issues using LXDE Desktop in Wheezy/Sid Debian.

I fixed most of these bugs which are known bugs with Lxde. Kinda wish I never installed it though but what is done is done.

I gave up Anti trying to get that Arch package for batterymon to autostart in lxde. Spent way too much time with it. Went with the heavy 40MB batteymon in Debian packages instead. It's less elegant or pretty and a lot heavier than Arch's. The Battery Monitor that came with lxde install was giving warning message with 6 hours left on Battery. That was why I was looking for alternatives. I'll zip up the folder for Arch's battery monitor and upload here. The only thing I added in folder is the batterymon.desktop . That never worked for me though as a launcher. Maybe my syntax was wrong in text.

You should be OK luc0zade with pcmanfm in default desktop.


Just to elaborate a bit more. The only thing broke in pcmanfm in lxde is in my viewing files. I have it set up to view by name which should be in alphabetical order. As you can see. That is not the case.



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Dave
Joined: 20 Jan 2010
#6
I am using pcmanfm 0.9.8. There is one problem that I am experiencing, with usb drives if the name contains a space in it ( EG:"usb thumb drive" ) then there is problems unmounting the device at times. It will either say something like"cannot unmount device, there is no such device" or"permission denied" easy enough fix though. To fix this I just opened gparted through the control center and changed the name of the device ( EG:"usb thumb drive" -->"usbthumbdrive" )
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secipolla
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
#7
For the ones that feel adventurous, installing libfm and pcmanfm from upstream solves both mentioned issues plus more. Actually it's more fun than an adventure as they don't affect anything else on the system. Instructions:
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Having

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if which dbus-launch >/dev/null && test -z"$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS"; then
         eval"$(dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session)"
fi
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &
in ~/.icewm/startup, plus making sure gvfs is installed should work for it to automount removable media.

PCManFM has even a directory tree view for the side pane now (in a parallel git branch):
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