I switched to CrunchBang (#!) today. The debian-based distro is fast and everything installed effortlessly. Except I didn’t like thunar, the default file manager. Some googling revealed that despite #! comes with thunar 1.2.3, the 1.6 version is available with lots of new features including tab support. After some messing around, here’s how I installed thunar 1.6.2.
Setup siduction keyring:
wget http://packages.siduction.org/base/pool/main/s/siduction-archive-keyring/siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb
dpkg -i siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb
rm siduction-archive-keyring_2013.03.29_all.deb
Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://ftp.spline.de/pub/siduction/xfcenext unstable main
Add the following to /etc/apt/preferences:
Package: thunar libthunarx-2-0 thunar-data
Pin: origin ftp.spline.de
Pin-Priority: 1200
And finally,
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install thunar
The new thunar looks much better. I might try this for a few days and consider moving to nautilus only as a last resort.