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I’ve done my fair share of tutorials on Thunar, but somehow I missed this.  So for the sake of completing what I started, he is a look at “File Sharing with Thunar and SSH on your Local network.”

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Sunflower or Sunflower-fm is a filemanager which I just recently submitted a video on.  I was contacted by one of the developers. Who let me know that many improvements had come along since then. So, here is a fresh look at the latest offering of Sunflower-fm, version 0.1a-40.

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VL-7.0 Thunar file manager’s Mouse Gestures, key bindings and send to, functions.

There are a lot of cool things about the Thunar file manager. The video linked here describes 3,  Mouse Gestures, key bindings and send to, functions.

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Thunar is the default filemanger for Vectorlinux 7.0.  Thunar is pretty easy to use from the get go, but take the time to view this video and you may discover some features that you never new you had to have.

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SSH makes sharing files in-between computers on your home network easy.  This tutorial will walk you through both a method for transferring files between computers from the command line and from a graphical application.

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4 Pane is a file manager available in the repositories of Vectorlinux.  It may be lesser known, and may also take a little getting used to but it has features to spare.

Top Ten reasons to like the 4pane file manager.

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In this tutorial we will use Thunar’s custom actions to create a sub-menu function open a directory as root. Creating your own custom actions in Thunar is easy and very versatile, almost anything that can be called from the command line can be used as a custom action

Create a custom action to open a directory as root in Thunar.

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In this tutorial we will use Thunar’s custom actions to create a sub-menu function for searching for files and folders with Catfish.  Creating your own custom actions in Thunar is easy and very versatile, almost anything that can be called from the command line can be used as a custom action.

Creating custom actions in Thunar.  Search files with Catfish.

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Thunar may be a light file manager compared to some, but it is not light on features.  One of my favorite abilities of Thunar is the capability to create custom actions.  With Vectorlinux a number of custom actions are provided with the base install.  To get you familiar with custom actions, this tutorial will take you through a number of these.

Introduction to Thunar’s Custom Actions on Vectorlinux

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Thunar’s Send-To function is a quick and easy way to create short-cuts, desktop links, or send items to email.  It can also be much more, if you learn to customize.  In this tutorial we will look at creating a custom Send-To function that will send a .desktop file to usr/share/applications/, so it can be launched from the start menu.

How to create a custom Send-To function in Thunar.

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