https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14812
--- Comment #5 from [email protected] --- I just done some testing on my current Debian 10 system. The problematic behavior described in this bug report still occurs with the following package versions: gvfs (1.38.1-5) libglib2.0-0 (2.58.3-2+deb10u2) thunar (1.8.4-1) as versions did not change much from those mentioned in comment 3. However, after removing the following packages: gvfs gvfs-backends gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs the problematic behavior can be seen always, even when running Thunar as a normal (non-root) user. Thus, I can confirm it is definitely a result of something the gvfs should do (i.e. some filtering of devices) while probably using some functionality from libglib2? However when running Thunar as root with gvfs installed the filtering of devices by gvfs seems not to be done resulting in the problematic behavior. If someone qualified can confirm that Thunar does use gvfs identically no matter under which user Thunar is run, then the problem should be in gvfs and we can try to report it as a gvfs bug. But I also found the following link "https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs/doc"; with a FAQ that discusses "Running applications under root". It seems to suggest that gvfs does not work well when used by an application run by root in a normal non-root session. I use the "Exec=pkexec /usr/bin/thunar /" command in a "*.desktop" file to start Thunar as root, thus I am not 100% sure the FAQ applies to my case, but it seems likely. This could also mean that if Thunar indeed uses gvfs when run by root it may be doing a wrong thing in the first place? Since I use Thunar as root only for specific tasks like moving or deleting system configurations etc. I am not going to run whole XFCE session as root just to get a consistent and nice filtering of DEVICES section. Besides that would be wrong security-wise:). But it would be nice if Thunar would not depend on gvfs for the filtering of DEVICES section. Then I could improve my system in the future by purging gvfs with its bunch of dependency packages and try to find an alternative to it (i.e. could systemd automount be used instead of gvfs?). In the mean time Thunar could be improved by adding a configuration option to hide the DEVICES section from the Shortcuts Side Pane. This option could perhaps be active by default when Thunar is run by root. Reasons are: - Information from the gvfs FAQ "Running applications under root". - The DEVICES section in root Thunar is more or less broken as it shows confusing and redundant devices + I also noticed that it does not show new connected devices such as USB disks (only after the device is mounted in a non-root Thunar it appears in the root Thunar). - The DEVICES section is redundant in root Thunar as one can deal with DEVICES in standard non-root Thunar. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Xfce-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce-bugs
