Thunar VS xfdesktop

Thunar

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

xfdesktop

The xfdesktop application manages the desktop backdrop.

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Thunar and xfdesktop)

xfdesktop

FTP Client

67 67%

FTP Client

33% 33

File Manager

64 64%

File Manager

36% 36

File Management

43 43%

File Management

57% 57

File Explorer

91 91%

File Explorer

9% 9

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Thunar seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Thunar mentions (4)

What beautiful Linux apps deserve more "marketing attention" for lack of a better term?
Thunar a blazingly-fast file manager with image & video previews, as well as plugins. Source: almost 2 years ago
How do you get nautilus to show the thumbnails? I'm on a chromebook using crostini. Debian bullseye (i'm sorry if that's irrelevant i am a linux noob)
I switched to Thunar because of this issue. It has very fast preview image loading, among other benefits. It seems well-integrated into Gnome, even though it is built primarily from the XFCE project. Source: about 2 years ago
Are there alternatives to dolphin?
Thunar xfce filemanager but works well in other DEs like plasma too. Source: over 2 years ago
How to make thunar remember previous session
Not sure how i3wm can help you with that. It would have to be implemented in Thunar itself. I would check Thunar's documentation first. Source: over 2 years ago