Ability to reopen last tabs/location upon restart

Similar to what most web browsers do, it would be very handy to give Thunar the option to remember the last set of tabs and locations that were open and to reopen then upon restart. I can't find anything in the UI nor any hidden option (maybe I missed it if it's hidden) but please consider adding this feature (with a way to configure it in the UI).

I agree that such a feature would be nice.

Patches are welcome !

I love Xfce and would love to help and contribute to the project. I've been working in QA for 15 years (so I'm more than willing to help test and log defects) and while I know enough Java to get by, I wouldn't really say I am a "good" programmer, though I am always willing to learn. Besides generic C/C++ tutorials, are there any resources to get started specifically in Xfce development? I can browse the code here but I don't really know where to start. :)

Nice ! More developers are always welcome !

AndreLDM made this nice guide which should help for the basics.

Here are some more thunar specific hints.

What you basically want, is to add a xfconf setting ( the ones displayed by xfce4-settings-editor) which hold a list of uris to be opened on startup. For that, you can take a look at some other xfconf setting, e.g. "hidden bookmarks", which as well uses a list of uris: https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/blob/master/thunar/thunar-preferences.c#L188

Than you need to find out where in thunar-window.c that list needs to be applied ... and so on :)

Thank you! I will give this a try.

added 2. Feature 5. Settings labels

mentioned in issue #465 (closed)

added 5. Tabs label

mentioned in merge request !120 (merged)

added 8. GSoC 2021 label

Fixed in !120 (merged) thanks to @SKefalidis, to be released in thunar 4.17.4

closed

Doesn't work if the thunar window is closed by clicking File > Close Window (Ctrl+Q)

Also doesn't show the warning for closing window with multiple tabs if tried to close as above. The warning is shown if we try to close the thunar window by clicking x button on the window titlebar.

A new issue should be opened for this since it isn't specific to the newly introduced preference (the problem is that delete-event is triggered when clicking the X button but not when destroying the widget directly). Nice catch none the less ;-)

Since you've already figure out the cause could you please file a fresh issue regrading the same?

mentioned in issue #611 (closed)