Bug#989833: thunar: Thunar does not auto-refresh when directory contents are changed
Package: thunar
Version: 4.16.8-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: sudoer@riseup.net
Dear Maintainer,
After updating from Debian Buster to Bullseye, Thunar has had major
issues with its auto-reloading feature. If I select a file in Thunar and
delete it, it will be deleted, but Thunar will still show it as there
until I click the reload button on the right side of the location bar.
Likewise, if a file is created by another program in the current
directory, Thunar will not display it until the reload button is
pressed, or if I switch to another directory and then switch back.
Thunar worked properly under Buster, where any change in the contents of
the directory would automatically and immediately be reflected in
Thunar, but now Thunar won't display any changes unless the directory is
manually reloaded.
Seeing as there are no other bug reports for an issue this big, it makes
me think that only my system is affected. I can record my screen to show
the behavior of this bug, if needed.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
APT prefers testing-security
APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages thunar depends on:
ii desktop-file-utils 0.26-1
ii exo-utils 4.16.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.36.0-2
ii libc6 2.31-12
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libexo-2-0 4.16.0-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.2+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.66.8-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.24-4
ii libgudev-1.0-0 234-1
ii libice6 2:1.0.10-1
ii libnotify4 0.7.9-3
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.46.2-3
ii libsm6 2:1.2.3-1
ii libthunarx-3-0 4.16.8-1
ii libxfce4ui-2-0 4.16.0-1
ii libxfce4util7 4.16.0-1
ii libxfconf-0-3 4.16.0-2
ii shared-mime-info 2.0-1
ii thunar-data 4.16.8-1
Versions of packages thunar recommends:
ii dbus-user-session [default-dbus-session-bus] 1.12.20-2
ii dbus-x11 [dbus-session-bus] 1.12.20-2
ii gvfs 1.46.2-1
ii libxfce4panel-2.0-4 4.16.2-1
ii policykit-1-gnome [polkit-1-auth-agent] 0.105-7
ii thunar-volman 4.16.0-1
ii tumbler 4.16.0-1
ii udisks2 2.9.2-2
ii xdg-user-dirs 0.17-2
Versions of packages thunar suggests:
ii gvfs-backends 1.46.2-1
ii thunar-archive-plugin 0.4.0-2
ii thunar-media-tags-plugin 0.3.0-2
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