Thunar 1.6.3; using detailed list view I have some USB hard drives (that have no defects or bad sectors), formatted with ext4 and NTFS. The roots of these hard drives contain several hundred files and directories. I'm not sure whether this problem is caused by the large number of files/directories, or the fact that I'm using USB hard drives. When I open a directory in one of the hard drives, and then navigate back (using the back arrow), about 5% of the time Thunar freezes. Everything becomes frozen, but menus in the menu bar still work. They can be opened but not closed, and clicking on the commands in them still works. It seems that every currently-displayed visual element in Thunar is frozen, but all of the functionality still works; new visual elements can appear, but they can't disappear. If I view another program, e.g. mousepad, and then switch back to the frozen Thunar window, Thunar's window in now covered by Mousepad's GUI; but still the File menu (and other menus) work, even though the menu bar is gone. Clicking where the File menu should be brings up the File menu, for example. Clicking on 'File' -> 'Close Window' closes Thunar like normal, and when Thunar is subsequently re-opened, it's completely back to normal.
Why are you reporting bugs for old versions? Please update and reopen if the issue still persists.
Yes, this bug still occurs in the latest version (1.6.10). Additional information: I think the problem only happens when there is a large number of files/directories visible. It is not related to volumes connected via USB. Another way to 'fix' this problem is to click again on the forward or back button. This un-freezes Thunar without having to close it.
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