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PCMan File Manager (PCManFM) is a file manager application which is meant to be a replacement for Nautilus, Konqueror and Thunar in the Lightweight X Desktop Environment (LXDE).

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Changing wallpaper using pcmanfm by crontab

I made a simple bash script that changes the wallpaper for a random picture from my wallpapers directory using pcmanfm. It's something like that: #!/bin/bash pcmanfm -w "$(find /home/likewise-open/MAPS/lucas.cardeal/Pictures/Wallpapers -type f |…
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Pcmanfm set wallpaper fails on Raspbian stretch in cron

I am running a nearly fresh image of Raspbian Stretch 4.9 with a desktop and have a program which creates a new image for the computer background every few minutes. I am trying to create a cron job to properly update the background using pcmanfm…
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Help getting Conky to work with LXDE & PCManFM

As some of you might be aware, there's a bug with either Conky or PCManFM (the desktop manager aspect of it) that makes the Conky window disappear in one of these situations: Setting "own_window_type override" in .conkyrc (the usual configuration…
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Where does PCmanFM mount samba devices

I discovered that PCmanFM mounts physic devices on /run/media/$USER/, but it seems that it don't mount samba devices in the same directory.
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How do I remove default actions for files with pcmanfm?

Raspbian doesn't have a default application for playing audio/mp3 files, so I went into the File Manager PCManFM, found the mp3 file, right click > Open With > "Custom Command Line" tab > Command Line to Execute > typed: omxplayer %f > Application…
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How can I add a new file/dir from a template in vifm?

In pcmanfm you can use your ~/Templates folder, to create new files using them. it's so easy then to make a template file and use it many times, now VIFM as a great file manager, how it can do this?
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How to make python open new Terminal as normal user and not as root user

Im trying to get python to run a terminal command which will change my desktop wallpaper. Running this command in a normal terminal will change my wallpaper. However when i try to make python run this command in terminal it doesnt work and gives me…
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pcmanfm arguements; bash

I am using ubuntu, fluxbox, pcmanfm as filemanager, xmms2 as music player. My goal: add songs to xmms2 playlist easily with pcmanfm. I have this script that works for single files: path= $1 if [ -d "$path" ]; then #if directory xmms2 radd…
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Multiple commands in a pcmanfm-qt custom action?

SOLUTION AND THE COMPLETE EXEC LINE Exec=sh -c 'sed -i "1s:.*::" /home/burak/Not/Shortcuts.mkd && pandoc -f markdown /home/burak/Not/Shortcuts.mkd --css /home/burak/Public/CSS/pandoc2.css -s -S -w html -o…
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pcmanfm-qt place multiple custom actions in one custom action file

NOTE: This relates to pcmanfm-qt not pcmanfm but I don't have enough rep to create the pcmanfm-qt tag. I use kdesvn for my svn work which in addition to providing a gui interface to svn, also provides a kde custom action that contains multiple…
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codium + pcmanfm-qt == 70+ CWD and SIZE commands per second

Local: Kubuntu 21.10, VSCodium 1.65.2, PCManFM-qt 0.17.0 Server: Windows Server 2016, FileZilla FTP Server I use VSCodium (the MS telemetry free version of Visual Studio Code) as my editor, PCManFM-qt as my FTP client. It's a great combination…
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PCManFM-Qt. How to change the background color?

I'd like to change the background color of PCManFM-Qt, the file manager of LxQt. I now a custom stylesheet can be used with the option -stylesheet. I found the program Gammaray, a program similar to gtk-inspector. After some trying I got something…
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Why does "sudo pcmanfm" break the php function move_uploaded_file()?

I just started a little project on a raspberry pi running Raspberry Pi OS. I have a vanilla apache2 installation where a php script moves a send file (via http POST) to an usb stick. The usb stick is mounted via usbmount and uses for the mounting…
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GPIO python script not calling bash with subprocess via cron

I have a Python script calling GPIOZERO to watch for button presses, calling a few different functions (turn off LCD etc) these work from cron, but the calls to bash from subprocess do not. Runs fine from command line. The other functions in this…
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