Created attachment 7580 thunar_1.jpg I'm running Slackware 14.2 x64, and I've installed Thunar, and only the dependencies it needs and nothing else. I am not running Xfce, but Openbox 3.6.1. I've seen this happening in both 1.6.10 and 1.6.13, where the directories are always dependencies themselves. 1. With a smaller window size, I noticed when first opening up Thunar, the directories are more bunched together, please see the screen shot thunar_1.jpg that shows this. 2. If I hit Crtcl H to show hidden files, this hit Crtl H again to hide them, the directory positions change from the original position you see in thunar_1.jpg, to this new position now in thunar_2.jpg 3. If I make the Thunar window slightly wider, you'll notice the spacing between the directories is also wider, but the window size in the thunar_1.jpg screen shot is not much narrower, look now at this width in screen shot thunar_3.jpg 4. With the window wider, as I mentioned making in number 3 above, now if I do Ctrl H twice to see the hidden directories, and hide them, then click on 'Desktop' under the 'Places', then click on my username, the directories go back bunched up like the first screen shot, even though the window is wider, see screen shot thunar_4.jpg The directories will only appear with wider spacing if you make Thunar wider, but they will not keep this position if you do something like I did, or if you close and reopen Thunar, they go back all bunched up. Bottom line, this is really crazy trying to use Thunar, with the directories always jumping all over the place. Is there any fix to this, is this a common problem, any thoughts to this? I've tried using other icon themes and I see the same thing... Hmm
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One other thing I forgot to mention, when I am navigating through Thunar, a lot of the directories are always bunched up very close together. I have not seen directories so bunched together on any file manager, as bad as this, this is also another problem, decent spacing between directories. Please see thunar_5.jpg showing this...
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SORRY TYPO in the first post; I've seen this happening in both 1.6.10 and 1.6.13, where the directories are always 'repositioning' themselves.
Thanks for reporting this! I can reproduce the issue on 1.6.13, however it seems to be fixed for master, which is based on gtk3. If you are brave, take a try to compile it from source! You dont need to install it to test. Hopefully we can release master soon as 1.8.0
Sheesh glad I wasn't loosing me mind! LOL I'm on Slack 14.2 which uses gtk+3-3.18.9, so I'm assuming we are talking about a newer version of gtk3 needed? If so that leaves me out... :( But if I can compile it against GTK 3.18, I compile all the time, I'm brave! LOL Can you point me to an URL for this master to test? Thanks
Great! v3.18.9 is fine for thunar. Currently the configure.ac.in stats to require 3.22 ... just replace the version there with 3.18 (thunar is not using any 3.22 specific features) https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/tree/configure.ac.in#n153 Here is the repo: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/ Possibly (depending on the -dev packages slack provides) you will need to as well compile exo from source: https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/ For exo: ./autogen.sh make make install ( AFAIK no problem to have old and new exo installed in parallel) For thunar: ./autogen.sh make ./thunar/thunar ( If you do "make install" for thunar, your 3rd party thunar plugins will refuse to work, since the Plugin-API changed ... it would be required to as well re-build them from source )
Ok.... Well I got upset with SpaceFM, actually IgnorantGuru, not exactly a nice person. Make one bug report on GitHub this person doesn't like and he bans you on GitHub and GitHub won't do nothing about this BLEEP! Anyone, after my filemanager hunt, then I got upset with Thunar, now I'm back with SpaceFM. I really wish Thunar had Multi Panes like SpaceFM, tabs doesn't cut it for me. Oh well, maybe soon I'll get mad at SpaceFM again and try Thunar again... LOL THANKS
TYPO: Anyone/Anyhow, after file manager hunt...
With our current resources ( barely enough devs for maintenance ), I dont see an additional view-mode comming soon :X However, like always, contributions are welcome! So if you are motivated, open a bug / take a try for implementation or set some money on it via bountysource: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/xfce/issues Since this bug seems to be fixed for master I will close this report !