There's been a patch recently that fixes a very annoying bug in Thunar, which has the latter lock up when files change in the currently open directory. I don't want to wait and would like to download the source, patch, compile and upgrade Thunar 1.6.11 on my Manjaro 17.0.1 system. Is there a guide how to do it the right... I mean the Arch way? (pun intended.)
How do I patch, compile & upgrade Thunar with a recently released patch... the Arch way?
manjaro;patch
Write a PKGBUILD, use makepkg to build the package and use pacman to install it.You can start with thunar-git, get it with the Download snapshot link. Download the patch, put it in the same directory and add the patch command just before the call to autogen.sh in the build function of the PKGBUILD.Maybe you want to start with the default PKGBUILD of manjaro if thunar-git doesn't work with your version of xfce.Update: The patch is already pushed to git, so thunar-git from aur might work for you without modifications.