Catfish not launching thunar

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If I open catfish stand-alone and select “open in file manager” from the context menu on the search results page, the app freezes and does not launch thunar as expected. What am I missing here?

PS: I tried integrating catfish into thunar as a custom action and it does work there, but I would prefer to open catfish as a separate instance.

This is the log as seen in terminal:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishWindow.py", line 1307, in on_menu_filemanager_activate
    self.thunar_display_path(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/catfish/CatfishWindow.py", line 1192, in thunar_display_path
    return method(dirname, filename, '', '')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 72, in __call__
    return self._proxy_method(*args, **keywords)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 141, in __call__
    return self._connection.call_blocking(self._named_service,
  File "/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 652, in call_blocking
    reply_message = self.send_message_with_reply_and_block(
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
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How did you integrate it? What did you use as the actual command for launching thunar?

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/usr/bin/catfish %f

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Hi lucidae, if you are not attached to catfish you could give searchmonkey a go.

It needs to set some default app. in the settings.

Schermafdruk_2021-12-08_17-05-49

It’s not the solution, but maybe searchmonkey gives enough to work with.

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Ps - I didt mention Fsearch, because it has a bit similar issue as Catfish.
But after using selectdefaultapplication-git (very basic) and a reboot. Fsearch opens Thunar.
Fsearch is very quick with searching after index. Each session, one index needed.
For some reason selectdefaultapplication did’t work for Catfish.

$ yay selectdefaultapplication-git

Schermafdruk_2021-12-08_19-30-06

using eos i3wm/xfce4

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