How to prevent caja-desktop from opening?

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Hopefully the following link might be useful for the purpose

Replace Caja with Thunar and XFCE Desktop (update 10/02/16)

#Introduction Really? You're writing this again?? Previously, I wrote an article about installing xfdesktop (XFCE desktop) without regard to Thunar. I feel now I have enough information about Thunar for the average user to enable it as a full replacement for Caja (or Nemo, if you're into that) so users can install it and enjoy a different desktop. That, and Google by now must have scraped my older thread so I am hoping this ends up above my old article. This will also have nothing to do with …