This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as: https://launchpad.net/bugs/473796 From the launchpad report: Able to map share in Gigolo but not able to launch Thunar from Gigolo. Behaviour is no apparent response when attempting to open a bookmark. Making the changes below led to desired behaviour of opening thunar when a bookmark is opened. The gigolo help note below provides a working solution which should perhaps be included in the gigolo (or thunar?) install? I've provided an extract as well as a link to the full article. ~~~ sudo apt-get install gvfs-fuse fuse-utils sudo gpasswd -a username fuse Edit ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list so that Thunar is used to open folders by gvfs-open: x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar.desktop inode/directory=Thunar.desktop x-directory/normal=Thunar.desktop from http://www.uvena.de/gigolo/help.html#open-resources-in-thunar-on-xfce-4-4-and-4-6 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Nov 4 14:57:41 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gigolo 0.3.2-1ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic SourcePackage: gigolo Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686 XsessionErrors: (xfce4-mixer-plugin:1386): libxfce4mixer-CRITICAL **: xfce_mixer_get_track: assertion `GST_IS_MIXER (card)' failed (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1397): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (xfce4-terminal:1497): Terminal-WARNING **: Unable to load terminal preferences. This might be a duplicate of http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5928
I don't see a bug here. The documentation says how to get it working (even though there is no need to quote project's documentation in the bug report...you obviously read it, I wrote it...). Gigolo should not inlude the necessary entries for the defaults.list, neither Thunar should, IMO. The next Thunar release will work natively with GIO/GVfs, so there is no need for the gvfs-fuse backend anymore. For the meantime, it's in the users' responsibility to setup the system correctly, as described in the documentation.