[SOLVED] Thunar Freezing in LMDE Xfce 201108

drjster · Post by **drjster** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:08 am

Thunar is freezing randomly when I attempt to open it using my mouse. I've tried changing to icon view and changing icon themes (from Mint-x to tangerine for example) but these seemingly random freezes continue. If I access Thunar with my keyboard (an inconvenience for sure), it will NOT freeze. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

drjster · Post by **drjster** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:35 pm

I misstated my issue. Let me try again: When opening Thunar for the first time after a restart, it take about 30 seconds to become responsive. The issue is described here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic ... r-xfce-48/ and http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=64190 Apparently, this bug has been fixed but it still happens on my machine. Thanks in advance.

richyrich · Post by **richyrich** » Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:42 pm

I have both Mint 9 Xfce and Mint Xfce 201108 and cannot re-produce your problem.

Do you have any network drives in Places in the left pane ?

drjster · Post by **drjster** » Wed Aug 24, 2011 12:32 am

richyrich wrote:I have both Mint 9 Xfce and Mint Xfce 201108 and cannot re-produce your problem.
Do you have any network drives in Places in the left pane ?

I have no network drives nor are any being displayed. If I open Thunar as root from the command line, I get no delay at all. From what I've read and what you've alluded to, this initial delay in opening Thunar appears to be related to some sort of network delay (gvfs- packages?)

steveov · Post by **steveov** » Sat Aug 27, 2011 8:35 am

I'm seeing this same delay in the release candidate.

Berneri · Post by **Berneri** » Sun Aug 28, 2011 9:30 am

Hi, although I'm very new to this forum, I might have an hint of a solution. In the /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname files. A while ago, I experienced the same kind of problem on Ubuntu, and the problem was solved by modifying the /etc/hosts file as follows:

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127.0.0.1    localhost

I think the /etc/hostname file should have

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localhost

That did the trick for me. Granted, here it's a different OS and a different WM, but I would still check it...

drjster · Post by **drjster** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 9:43 am

I found this fix on another forum:

"Go to /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount and change the "AutoMount" value to false. Reboot."

Thunar now opens immediately each and every time (especially the first time after a restart).

The caveat for this fix is that Thunar will no longer automatically stat your network the first time you open it. I don't do network browsing so this doesn't affect me.

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