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osjak

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Registered: 2009-10-31

Posts: 1

No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

Hi All,

I have been using Gnome on my Ubuntu desktop and had many different server connections bookmarked in Nautilus file manager. That was a handy way to connect to servers of different types - ftp, ssh, scp-only etc. I didn't have to have different clients for different types of connections, everything was done in Nautilus.

Yesterday I have switched from Gnome to xfce. I love how my old desktop feels light and alive. I am trying to figure out a simple way to set up those server connections, but the Thunar file manager xfce uses does not have the "Connect to server..." functionality built in as Nautilus does. I am sure I am not the first person to deal with this. Searching does not produce anything useful. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Is there a way in xfce to have all types of server connections pre set in the file manager?

Thank you.

PS: My desktop - Ubuntu 9.10, xfce4

s0ulslack

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From: Idaho

Registered: 2005-12-25

Posts: 291

Re: No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

With the current stable releases that isn't possible.  Your gonna have to use Gigolo (http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/) for the time being.  Xfce 4.8 will (actually all the thunar git stuff now is GIO based and should support what you want) support similar functions via GIO, as mentioned above

ManOfSteel

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Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 104

Re: No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

You can find some info on 4.8 on Jannis Pohlmann's blog: http://gezeiten.org/post/2009/09/Xfce-4 … nformation

Planned Features

[...]

thunar
Finish the migration to GIO/GVfs. Among other features, this will give us network browsing (windows shares, SSH, FTP etc.).

mootster

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Registered: 2011-10-23

Posts: 1

Re: No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

Thanks for the advice.  I had the same question.

jannis

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Registered: 2011-06-09

Posts: 19

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Re: No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

In Xfce 4.8 (Thunar >= 1.2.0) you can open remote locations by typing their URIs into the location bar/dialog. However, we don't have a dedicated "connect to server" dialog yet and also you can't bookmark remote locations properly yet. The latter will be fixed in Xfce 4.10.

paolo321

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Registered: 2011-06-26

Posts: 121

Re: No "Connect to server..." in xfce's Thunar. Ideas?

I use a small script like this: not nice like using real bookmarks, but it seems to work..
Add a row for every site; it would have been nice to parse the existing .gtk-bookmarks file or anyway use an external file... But I didn't want to work too much for a temporary workaround :-)

#!/bin/bash
URL=$(zenity --list --radiolist --print-column=3 --hide-column=3 --hide-header \
--column "radio" --column "name" --column "keyword" \
FALSE 'SITE_NAME_1' 'SITE_URI_1' \
)
thunar "$URL"