8349 – option to focus (select) file or directory when opened from CLI

option to focus (select) file or directory when opened from CLI

Status:

RESOLVED: DUPLICATE

Priority:
Medium

Severity:
enhancement

Product:
Thunar

Component:

Core

Comments

Description jose1711 2012-01-16 22:41:05 CET

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7
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i would welcome an option to select target (file or directory) instead of entering it/opening it. analogy in win32:

explorer C:\WINDOWS -> displays contents
explorer /select,C:\WINDOWS -> selects

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Harald Judt editbugs

2015-04-17 15:48:05 CEST

*** Bug 8371 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Harald Judt editbugs

2015-04-17 17:43:08 CEST

At the moment, you can use the dbus interface to accomplish this:

dbus-send --print-reply --dest='org.xfce.FileManager' /org/xfce/FileManager org.xfce.FileManager.DisplayFolderAndSelect string:/home/user/tmp string:some-file.zip string:"" string:0

This will be improved in a later milestone. Closing.

Comment 3 alexxcons editbugs

2019-01-14 21:58:04 CET

Closing in favor of Bug #12273, which has slightly more information.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 12273 ***

Bug #8349

Reported by:
jose1711

Reported on: 2012-01-16
Last modified on: 2019-01-14

Duplicates (1):

8371 FR: command-line option to open containing folder and show file

People

Assignee:
Jannis Pohlmann

CC List:
3 users

Version

Version:
unspecified

Target Milestone:
1.2.0

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