thunar root mode: active view will not work, stuck with icon view

[francois]

Each time that I open thunar in root mode, an instance of thunar root mode will open;

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# thunar
thunar: Failed to initialize Xfconf: The connection is closed

Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)
Error creating proxy: The connection is closed (g-io-error-quark, 18)

(thunar:24291): thunar-WARNING **: 13:21:43.189: Name 'org.xfce.FileManager' lost on the message dbus.

(thunar:24291): thunar-WARNING **: 13:21:43.189: Name 'org.freedesktop.FileManager1' lost on the message dbus.
ThunarThumbnailer: failed to create proxy: The connection is closed

My problem is that it opens in icon view.

Though preferences is set to last active view for thunar, once I ask to view > compact view, and then click on a folder it will not stay in last active view and come back to icon view.

Has someone has a cue on how I can fix that?
Thanks.

[donald]

I don't know why you want to start thunar this way - we have clickable icons
to start thunar in root mode.

However, if you insist, you could run:
dbus-run-session -- thunar

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# dbus-run-session -- thunar

[francois]

Hello donald. I hope you are doing fine. And you are right I could use thunar file manager root available thru the launcher.

Nonetheless thanks for the tip.

[francois]

I would like to create an xfce launcher that starts in another directory than the home directory. To do so, how do I modify the command?
psu dbus-run-session -- thunar "%F"

The launcher will not accept the directory that I propose:
/mnt/sdb3/50_porteus/xfce/

Thanks

[donald]

port-5-xfce
Launch a root-thunar in specific directory.


porteus on sdb1 - launcher created as guest -- thunar-root opens in /mnt/sda3/krimskrams/

[francois]

Thanks.