an option such as : $ thunar --show-file /path/to/file should be available. Then, from other applications, we could call this to show the location of a file. A new window of thunar would open, would open to the folder of the file (/path/to) and would select the given file. Mac OS X has this and this is interesting for example in the case application downloads file, to locate easily the result file.
Thunar already supports the DisplayFolderAndSelect() method. I.e. from the command line: dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.xfce.FileManager /org/xfce/FileManager org.xfce.FileManager.DisplayFolderAndSelect string:"/path/to/dir" string:"filename" string:"" *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1553 ***