Linux on Desktop: Thunar: Versatile and Impressive Replacement for Nautilus File Manager | Linux Today

Linux on Desktop: Thunar: Versatile and Impressive Replacement for Nautilus File Manager

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 11, 2007

“Thunar is a file manager that is shipped by default with XFCE
and is a integral part of XFCE desktop environment. Thunar is
developed by Benedikt Meurer and has been named after the god Thor
of Norse mythology. It is similar to Nautilus but uses much less
resource as compared to Nautilus, and in fact one of the goals of
creating Thunar was to create a file manager that was fast, clean
and easy to use. It is much more responsive as compared to some
other file managers available on Linux including Konqueror (KDE)
and Nautilus (GNOME)…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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