I'd love to know what kind of capabilities you are using scripting with Thunar for... I still use it in i3. It's a great file manager.
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Happy to share
To name a few of my favourites:
Move specific files to a different machine
scp -P 22 -r "%f" namme@ip:/home/user/folder/ && rm "%f"
Run OCR job on PDF
xfce4-terminal --command="ocrmypdf --force-ocr %f %f_OCR.pdf"
Increase/Decrease audio volume
xfce4-terminal --command="lame --scale 5 %f %f_5.mp3"
xfce4-terminal --command="lame --scale -5 %f %f_-5.mp3"
Package py to elf
pyinstaller --onefile --name $(basename "%f" | cut -f 1 -d '.' ) %f
Share file via Linx
curl -k -H "Linx-Api-Key: " -T %f https://
Show file hashes