THUNAR(1)

💅 THUNAR(1) — like, the Thunar manual bestie 💅

okay so this is the manual page for Thunar, and yes it's a User Commands situation, welcome, come in, sit down 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Thunar — File Manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment. that's it, that's the whole name section, she's a file manager, she's iconic, periodt. ✨

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

Thunar [options] [[URI]...]

Thunar [options] --bulk-rename [[URI]...]

Thunar [options] --quit

three whole moods, pick your fighter 💖

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so Thunar is a fast and easy to use file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment, no cap. she was designed from the ground up to be lighweight — yes bestie that's how it's spelled in the original, we don't fix, we don't touch, we respect the text — with special focus on usability. 👑

her user interface is clean and intuitive and literally does not include any confusing or useless options. the way that she just works. main character energy, fr fr. ✨

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🌈 INVOCATION 🌈

okay so here's the vibe check on how you actually call her 👇

Thunar takes a list of URIs for folders that should be opened in new file manager windows, or files that should be selected in new file manager windows. 🗂️

those URIs can be any of these, all valid, all slaying:

• file: URIs
• trash: URIs
• absolute paths
• paths relative to the current directory from which Thunar is being invoked

and if you specify no URIs at all? no stress, she just opens the current folder in a new file manager window. lowkey thoughtful of her. 💅

⚠️ heads up: when the --bulk-rename option is specified, no file managers windows will be opened — instead the URIs get passed to the bulk renamer. (also yes, "file managers windows" is exactly what the original says, we are not editing her grammar, she's perfect 🫶)

and what does the bulk renamer do, you ask? it allows one to rename several files or folders at once using different renamer modules. mass rename era. 🔥

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✨ Options ✨

every flag, no skipping, we ate and left no crumbs 👑

• -?, --help — print brief help and exit. the "wait what does this do again" button 🙈
• -V, --version — print version information and exit. for when you need to know exactly which queen you're running 💜
• -B, --bulk-rename — open the URIs in a standalone window of the bulk renamer. rename everything at once, iconic behaviour 🎀
• --daemon — do not terminate the Thunar instance when the last window is closed, but keep it running to speed up opening new windows later on. this is the default when spawning Thunar as part of the default Xfce session, or when using D-Bus activation. she just ✨stays✨ 🌸
• --display=DISPLAY — use the specified X DISPLAY for the user interface. pick your screen, bestie 🖥️
• -q, --quit — terminate any Thunar instance running in the background (spawned using the --daemon option). 🔥

💀 real talk: this --quit command should be used whenever Thunar is upgraded to a new version, to ensure that no old instance is reused. like, do not skip this step, an old instance lurking in the background is not the vibe, ngl.

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⭐ AUTHOR ⭐

Thunar was written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>.

This manual page was written by Benedikt Meurer <benny@xfce.org>. (same legend, both jobs, we stan a multi-hyphenate 👑)

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okay that's the whole page, and for the sign-off: this beauty is dated 09/12/2026 and she lives under the manual name THUNAR(1) — go forth and manage those files, bestie, you're gonna slay 💖🧚‍♀️🌸