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Is it possible to communicate with a running instance of pcmanfm from a python app ? How could I do that ? What I would like to do is have my python app File Open function to communicate with pcmanfm as a file picker. Pcmanfm would return a resule, but remain as an open window and a subsequent File ...

OK, sorry on the double post. I discovered something interesting. I launched pcmanfm from a terminal window, then used pidof to find the process number of the pcmanfm. Then I kill pcmanfm. My desktop icons disappeared. Those are displayed by pcmanfm, so I killed both instances of the pcmanfm, I gues...

I want to use PCManFM in a script in Lubuntu.

I want the script to 'WAIT' for the user to exit PCManFM before execute the next statement in the script.

How can I do that ?

It appear that PCManFM runs as a daemon once it is launched.