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Is it possible to set the default behaviour of double clicking a folder to be "Open in New Window" with PCManFM?

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My mother uses separate desktops heavily and finds it very irritating when she accidentally double-clicks on a folder on her desktop rather than right-clicking and choosing "open in new window" as she's trained herself to usually do.

Is there a way to set PCManFM to default to opening in new windows rather than new tabs?

(She's using 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) at the moment)

Here's a very rushed screencast explaining the behaviour I'm talking about.

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answered 2 Years ago lishrag · Accepted Answer

You can try to recompile PCManFM , I am running Lubuntu 12.04 with PCManFM 0.9.10 and these steps worked for me.

Follow these steps:

Open a Terminal and install the necessary packages:
```
sudo apt-get install apt-src build-essential
```

Install the build dependencies:
```
sudo apt-get build-dep pcmanfm
```

Create a folder to download the source code:
```
mkdir ~/Downloads/src

cd ~/Downloads/src
```

Download the source:
```
apt-src install -b pcmanfm
```

Edit the pcmanfm-0.9.10/src/pcmanfm.c file.
```
leafpad pcmanfm-0.9.10/src/pcmanfm.c
```

In Leafpad, search for the line fm_main_win_open_in_last_active(fi->path); (should be somewhere around line 420 and change it to fm_main_win_add_win(NULL, fi->path);.
Save the changes and close the file. See the screenshots if it isn't clear:

Before:

After:

Go to the pcmanfm-0.9.10/ folder to build the deb packages:

cd pcmanfm-0.9.10/

dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b

Now you can install the deb packages:
```
cd ..

sudo dpkg -i pcmanfm*deb
```

Finally you can logout and Login to see the changes.

Reference: This post by ogilvierothchild in ubuntu forums.