[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#708853: support browsing remote filesystems via SSH

[Ulrich Eckhardt]

Package: thunar
Version: 1.2.3-4+b1
Severity: wishlist

I'm trying to access a filesystem on a different system using SSH. I
know that thunar supports this, but I can't get it to work or even
extract any meaningful error message. Just to make that clear: I'm not
running XFCE, just thunar inside a fluxbox session!

I've been doing some research, and it seems that thunar requires some
external packages in order to use SSH, but I don't know which and they
are not hard dependencies. In any case, all recommends and suggests are
installed, apart from xfce4-panel. I have also installed gvfs-bin and
gvfs-fuse, but neither helped. I guess that it's just a matter of
documenting these dependencies (README.Debian perhaps?), if these are
the problem at all.

That said, the error messages are not really helpful. If I put
"ssh://192.168.1.2/" into thunar's location field, it just displays a
red icon next to it, without any further error message. If I start it
from a terminal, I get a popup and the same text echoed on the console:

  ~$ thunar "ssh://192.168.1.2/"
  Thunar: Failed to open "ssh://192.168.1.2/": The specified location
  is not supported

This is very similar to gvfs:

  ~$ gvfs-mount -m  "ssh://192.168.1.2/"
  Error mounting location: The specified location is not supported


I'm confident I could find out what's wrong myself, but I think a user
shouldn't be required to read the sources and search the web in order
to get this to work, hence the wishlist bug.


Greetings from Hamburg!

Uli


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages thunar depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils  0.20-0.1
ii  exo-utils           0.6.2-5
ii  libatk1.0-0         2.4.0-2
ii  libc6               2.13-38
ii  libcairo2           1.12.2-3
ii  libdbus-1-3         1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2    0.100.2-1
ii  libexo-1-0          0.6.2-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0  2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0        2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgtk2.0-0         2.24.10-2
ii  libgudev-1.0-0      175-7.2
ii  libice6             2:1.0.8-2
ii  libnotify4          0.7.5-2
ii  libpango1.0-0       1.30.0-1
ii  libsm6              2:1.2.1-2
ii  libthunarx-2-0      1.2.3-4+b1
ii  libxfce4ui-1-0      4.8.1-1
ii  libxfce4util4       4.8.2-1
ii  shared-mime-info    1.0-1+b1
ii  thunar-data         1.2.3-4

Versions of packages thunar recommends:
ii  dbus-x11        1.6.8-1
ii  gvfs            1.12.3-4
ii  libfontconfig1  2.9.0-7.1
ii  libfreetype6    2.4.9-1.1
ii  thunar-volman   0.6.1-1
ii  tumbler         0.1.25-1+b1
ii  xdg-user-dirs   0.14-1
ii  xfce4-panel     4.8.6-4

Versions of packages thunar suggests:
ii  thunar-archive-plugin     0.3.0-4
ii  thunar-media-tags-plugin  0.2.0-1

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