#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.3

### Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

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# thunar-4.20.2

## Introduction to thunar

Thunar is the Xfce file manager, a GTK+ 3 GUI to organise the files on your computer.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/thunar/4.20/thunar-4.20.2.tar.bz2

- Download MD5 sum: 87adf363ea5f93d7f7ab55ad384ff74e

- Download size: 4.3 MB

- Estimated disk space required: 72 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4)

### Thunar Dependencies

#### Required

Exo-4.20.0

#### Required (Runtime)

hicolor-icon-theme-0.18

#### Recommended

libgudev-238, libnotify-0.8.4, and pcre2-10.45

#### Optional

GTK-Doc-1.34.0 (for documentation), Gvfs-1.56.1 (for remote browsing and automounting), libexif-0.6.25 and tumbler-4.20.0 (runtime)

## Installation of Thunar

First prevent the installation of an unneeded systemd file:

    sed -i 's/\tinstall-systemd_userDATA/\t/' Makefile.in

Install Thunar by running the following commands:

    ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                --sysconfdir=/etc \
                --docdir=/usr/share/doc/thunar-4.20.2 &&
    make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the `root` user:

    make install

## Contents

Installed Programs: Thunar (symlink to thunar), thunar, and thunar-settings
Installed Library: libthunarx-3.so
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/Thunar, /usr/include/thunarx-3, /usr/lib/Thunar, /usr/lib/thunarx-3, /usr/share/Thunar, /usr/share/doc/thunar-4.20.2, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/thunarx

### Short Descriptions

thunar | is the Xfce file manager
thunar-settings | is a shell script that launches a dialog box to allow you to alter the behavior of Thunar
`libthunarx-3.so` | contains the Thunar extension library which permits adding new features to the Thunar file manager

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