Use Gigolo to Access Remote Filesystem

Open resources in Thunar on Xfce 4.4 and 4.6

Start Gigolo by going to Xubuntu's menu Application -> System -> Remote Filesyste.

By default, Gigolo uses gvfs-open to open the connected remote resources. On some systems this will either result in an error or open the wrong file manager because gvfs-open uses the mime types to determine which application it should launch and those mime types are often not configured properly.

First, you need to install the gvfs-fuse backend for GVFS and fuse-utils so that GVfs mounts the remote resources in ~/.gvfs. Make sure that your user is in the fuse group or this will not work. The easiest way to do add your user to the fuse group is to run the following command as root:

sudo aptitude install gvfs-fuse fuse-utils
sudo gpasswd -a username fuse

Obviously, you should replace username by your actual used username.

Then, you may need to add the following lines to your ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list so that Thunar is used to open folders by gvfs-open:

x-directory/gnome-default-handler=Thunar.desktop
inode/directory=Thunar.desktop
x-directory/normal=Thunar.desktop

Note: It may be necessary to relaunch your session after those modifications especially when you added your user to the fuse group.