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Way to bring existing thunar from keyboard shortcut instead of opening new one (broken in 4.16)

Hi,

I used to enjoy doing this :

  • Ctrl E : bring to front existing filemanager window, or create on if none exists
  • Ctrl Shit E : create new instance of file manager

With thunar I used to us this small script relying on xdotool

#!/bin/bash
# raise existing thunar window or open a new one
need_new=0
for w in $(xdotool search --limit 1 --name "File Manager"); do
    need_new=1
    xdotool windowraise $w
    break
done
if [ ${need_new} -eq 0 ]; then thunar $HOME ; fi 

BUT since 4.16, window name changed. It now only contains the directory name displayed at the moment.

As a result ... my small script is useless.

I'd really enjoy any other way of accomplishing this again, by whatever workaround you may think of.

thank you for reading,

kind regards