Thunar

The file manager for the Xfce desktop.

Thunar is the file manager that ships as part of Xfce. Its defining qualities are speed and a small memory footprint — Thunar opens almost instantly even on older hardware — combined with a feature set that covers most everyday file-manager needs: custom actions, bulk rename, tabbed views, drag-and-drop, trash integration, and a plugin system for archive support and other extensions.

Benedikt Meurer started Thunar in 2004 as a replacement for the older Xffm file manager that was bundled with Xfce 4.0. Thunar shares a codebase across Xfce releases and has co-evolved with the rest of the desktop environment since.

Thunar is the file manager on Xfce-based distributions (Xubuntu, Manjaro Xfce, Linux Mint Xfce) and is also a popular choice on lightweight setups (LXQt, i3 with X11) where users want a graphical file manager without GTK 4 or Qt 5 baggage.

License: GPL-2.0-or-later

Category: File manager

Website: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start

Install

Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install thunar
Fedora/RHEL:   sudo dnf install thunar
Arch:          sudo pacman -S thunar

Authors

Xfce project

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