Thunar slow opening fix

[mike555]

I think I have fixed the Thunar slow opening issue in Xubuntu , I noticed Thunar opened fast as root, but took almost 30 seconds to open normally, so I figured it was a permissions issue, so I opened Thunar, clicked on File > Properties > Permissions > then set your "group" to have read & write permissions ..... that worked good for me on two systems ...

please let me know if this works for you ,if your having the same problem on Xubuntu 11.04.

[yetiman64]

Thanks for posting this mike555, I had barely booted into my xubuntu11.04 install in well over a month because of this (was driving me mad to the point of even installing nautilus, and that's not a real good idea I've found out, but it can be done )

The change is from 35-40 seconds to open a folder down to 1-2 seconds if that. Near instant opening at the moment (nautilus is about to be kicked out by the looks of this )

Thanks again, this has renewed my interest in continuing trialing/using Xubuntu. yetiman64 (This is posted from Xubuntu btw )

[Jose Catre-Vandis]

An extra step I got:

1. "Cannot change permissions to symlinks" dialog, so clicked on "Skip for all"

No speed up for me, but was only about 5 seconds anyway on first run. because thunar goes into memory after that subsequent runs are much quicker.

Did you do this as your normal user, and only on your home folder ?

[RHTopics]

Like Jose Catre-Vandis, I had the extra step as well because I have a mounted partition named "data" that is symlinked in the top level of my home directory (ex. /home/rhtopics/data).

I rebooted the computer and then brought up Thunar. Definitely noticed an improvement. Took about 1-2 seconds to bring up Thunar while before it would take around 5 seconds to bring it up.

[yetiman64]

I also skipped the symlinks, but at the time got an immediate drastic speed up.

However since rebooting and on subsequent reboots I have now noted it is slow for about 3 or 4 minutes after startup (not as bad as before though), then drops down to a second or two for each opening. There may be a memory factor in this as well as Jose Catre-Vandis mentions.

Considering prior to making the permissions changes it was always painfully slow for me, this is still a very good result.

Edit: @ Jose Catre-Vandis, yes I did the changes as normal user and only on the Home Folder to get the improved Thunar opening.

[eexcellent]

Great tip, worked for me!

Thanks Mike555

[geovino]

I think I have fixed the Thunar slow opening issue in Xubuntu , I noticed Thunar opened fast as root, but took almost 30 seconds to open normally, so I figured it was a permissions issue, so I opened Thunar, clicked on File > Properties > Permissions > then set your "group" to have read & write permissions ..... that worked good for me on two systems ...

please let me know if this works for you ,if your having the same problem on Xubuntu 11.04.

It worked a couple times, then went back to a long delay. Anyway other way to fix this problem?

[Nuc72]

I think it's a better solution if you leave smb-browse.mount untouched, and edit network.mount instead. Set AutoMount to false.
If you need network, just click on network:/// in Thunar, it will mount itself.

[Chaitaweede]

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[godsgifttoearth]

still doesn't work for me. i've done every listed fix i can editing bits and pieces, still takes a good 30seconds to first open.