Hello Ralf:
Sorry for the delay in replying. I've been adjusting my list
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Still fighting problems there, so this may still not make it to the list.
On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 13:51:11 -0400, Phil Staub wrote:
>/Does this sound familiar to anyone? /
Hi,
no and I neither have got Xubuntu installed, nor am I using Xfce at the
moment. However, my first guess was, that it might be related to gvfs.
I don't have got gvfs installed, but both Thunar and Nemo are able to
access the Desktop folder without the gvfs dependency on my machine.
I don't remember explicitly installing gvfs, but it certainly may have
been installed when I installed something as a dependency.
Taking a look with 'strace' might help, if Thunar suffers from a delay.
Without a delay it is very confusing, due to the amount of output,
that at least I get on my machine.
Not sure how I would use strace to monitor what clicking on a folder on
the desktop would do.
If you run 'top' from command line, does it show something when the
delay happens?
Top shows nemo starting right away, but the folder doesn't open for
between 15 and 30 seconds.
What kind of folder are on your desktop? Real folders or links or mount
points? Is the Desktop folder part of the root directory or on another
partition?
I have some of each of these on my desktop. In the simplest case, a
folder in ~/Desktop/<folder> exhibits the delay.
What output do you get, if you run
ls -hAl ~/Desktop/
from command line.
Pretty much what I would expect. (Long listing of everything on the
Desktop including '.' files, with sizes in suffixed units like K,M,G,
but no delay.) Something you are looking for?
Is there a delay if you run
cd ~/Desktop/a_folder/
No
and/or
ls -hAl ~/Desktop/a_folder/
?
No delay. If I immediately double click on the folder, it took 25
seconds to open this time.
Just for testing purpose install spacefm/spacefm-gtk3. It's a very
customizable file browser that doesn't have a dependency to GNOMEish
bloatware helpers such as gvfs.
sudo apt update
sudo apt install spacefm-gtk3
Do you experience the same delay issue when using spacefm?
Interesting. No delay using spacefm. It should be noted that although I
installed spacefm-gtk3, I only found spacefm executable.
You can remove spacefm by running
sudo apt purge spacefm-gtk3
For the time being, I'll leave it installed, but it WOULD be good to
know what causes the delay with Thunar and Nemo.
Alternatively install 'spacefm' instead of 'spacefm-gtk3', but start by
testing 'spacefm-gtk3'.
Regards,
Ralf
Thanks for your comments, Ralf.
Phil
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