How to stop Thunar being default file browser

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Published on 2011-06-06T07:26:23Z Indexed on 2012/03/21 17:39 UTC
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On a relatively new 11.04 installation Thunar has become the default file browser simply by using it!

Whilst I can open Nautilus easily enough, I'd rather it remained as the default, especially when I choose to view files in dual pane.

The only action that I can pinpoint that might have given over my files and folders to Thunar is making Nautilus into Nautilus-Elementary (oh and Unity carked it so I reverted rather unwillingly to Classic, glad I did it is so much more stable and this is my production machine and Unity acts as if it is early alpha as far as I can tell!)

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