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Martin

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Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

I have started to look into a photo editing tool called Darktable. Darktable creates a .xmp file for each image file. I find this clutters the folder viewing in Thunar so I started to look for ways to hide these .xmp files.

Following these instructions I find I can hide individual files but not all files ending with .xmp. Specifying *.xmp in .hidden does not work.
https://slackalaxy.com/2015/06/04/hidin … in-thunar/

Is there a way?

TIA

/Martin

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

Globbing won't work, the file is parsed very simply: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/396 … le-feature

Maybe run a systemd .timer to keep ~/.hidden up to date? Or use a wrapper script to refresh the file whenever Thunar is opened.

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Re: Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

There are options you can set for how/when darktable creates the xpm file; including turning the feature off. That may make it more manageable for you.

https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3 … s/sidecar/

https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/3 … s/storage/

https://discuss.pixls.us/t/darktable-ho … iles/15371

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Martin

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Re: Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

Thanks for the quick and informative answers.

It seems I am stuck with this xpm file mess for now.

/Martin

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Re: Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

One option would be to sort the contents of that folder by type. If your images are jpg and png files, the xbm files would be out of the way at the end.

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Martin

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Re: Hiding filetypes in Thunar?

Long term I will try to figure out how to write a script that updates .hidden files.

/Martin

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