When installed on 64-bit Xubuntu, thunarx-python is unable to locate libpython2.7.so.1.0. This is because on 64-bit Ubuntu derivatives, libpython is installed at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0, while thunarx-python looks for it at /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0. A similar issue was identified in nautilus-python, and someone committed a patch that may help solve the issue for thunarx-python as well: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-python/+bug/1170017 Note that this bug was discovered while trying to get RabbitVCS working: https://code.google.com/p/rabbitvcs/issues/detail?id=761#c18
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Thanks Ben, I'll see if I can make this fix soon.
It's over a year later and still not fixed in the repos :( The problem is easily fixed with a symlink but its stil annoying ESPECIALLY since in my system it leads to xfdesktop to crash: I did an update of some libs recently (base systems is xubuntu 14.04.1) and suddenly my desktop icons were gone and right click on the desktop didn't work. ps-e still showed xfdesktop running After some trouble shooting I found an error message related to this bug. After I added symlinks xfdesktop ran normal. Apparently with the latest updates xfdesktop is really unhappy with thunarx-python and not only crashes but hangs .
Would you be willing to submit a patch?
Never done that before, so it would take me a bit of time to figure out exactly what to do but I always appreciate the oppty to learn
I attempted to fix this in the v0.4.0 release I just made which was mostly intended to work with Gtk+3 and the just-released thunar v1.7.0.