Pcman default file manager

Viewed 4k times. How can I set pcmanfm to be my default package manager? Improve this question. By default, the file manager is pcmanfm Are you sure it isn't? Its on the system for sure. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. NOTE: You will only ever need to do steps 1 and 2 once. Improve this answer.

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MarkovCh1 MarkovCh1 1, 2 2 gold badges 22 22 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. I could not find nautilus-autostart. You could run locate nautilus-autostart. Thanks for that tip, Syzygy. For some reason, I could not see it by navigating to the folder even when showing the hidden files , however this command located it where you said it was in I'd be cautious doing this in Show 2 more comments. In terminal, execute exo-preferred-applications Then move to the Utilities tab, and under File Manager , choose your weapon of choice.

Rasmus Rasmus 7, 10 10 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 65 65 bronze badges. Apparently this needs exo-utils to be installed. SuperMau SuperMau 1, 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Eric Carvalho Biblioclasta Biblioclasta 3 3 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Biblioclasta, didnt help, its still the same ; — JarekJ You can run PcManFm as your desktop manager by running pcmanfm --desktop. You can then add this to command to startup applications.

If using the native desktop menu provided by a window manager, enter the following command to set or amend desktop preferences at any time:. User content such as text files, documents, images and so forth can be dragged and dropped directly onto the desktop.

To create shortcuts for applications it will be necessary to copy their. Do not drag and drop the files there as they will be moved completely.

The syntax of the command to do so is:. For example - where installed - to create a desktop shortcut for lxterminal , the following command would be used:.

How PCManFM may be autostarted as a daemon process or to manage the desktop for a standalone window manager will depend on the window manager itself. Should a window manager not provide an autostart file, PCManFM may be alternatively autostarted by editing one or both of the following files:. Less experienced users should be aware that a file manager alone - especially when installed in a standalone Window manager such as Openbox - will not provide the features and functionality users of full desktop environments such as Xfce and KDE will be accustomed to.