[xubuntu-users] Slow opening folders on Xubuntu 20.04

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 05:39:35 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>GVFS is still a possible culprit. For testing purpose you could
>install an empty dummy package, so you don't break hard dependencies
>against gvfs, but you could test, if running Thunar or Nemo doesn't
>suffer from a delay anymore.
>
>Build and install a dummy package and remove gvfs dependencies:
>
>$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install equivs
>$ mkdir dummy-package
>$ cd dummy-package/
>$ echo "Package: gvfs" > gvfs
>$ echo "Version: 2020:06-06-test" >> gvfs
>$ echo "Maintainer: Phil Staub <phil at staub.us>" >> gvfs
>$ echo "Architecture: all" >> gvfs
>$ echo "Description: Dummy package" >> gvfs
>$ equivs-build gvfs
>$ sudo apt install ./gvfs_06-06-test_all.deb
>$ sudo apt remove gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs
>
>You can downgrade to gvfs, IOW reinstall gvfs from Ubuntu repositories
>and install it's dependencies by running:
>
>$ sudo apt update && sudo apt install gvfs=$(apt-cache show gvfs |
>grep Version:\ 1 | head -1 | cut -d" " -f2)  

PS:

As long as gvfs is replaced by the empty dummy package some features
aren't available, such as mounting devcies by a mouse click,
accessing Trash by Thunar or Nemo. OTOH IIRC the default install of
spacefm allows to mount devices using udisks2 by a mouse click. I'm
using spacefm, but not a default install. Accessing Trash could be done
by it's path ~/.local/share/Trash/.