If you are experiencing a bug in thunar, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.

If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.

When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.

For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.

File a new bug or enhancement request

Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.

• White color and frame used for backdrop non-editable GtkEntry widgets (2025/01/20 11:27)
• Can "enter" no read access folders (Permission Denied or unreadable directories) (2025/01/19 09:15)
• Crash when trying top open subfolders of an unreadable directory (via location bar) (2025/01/16 18:31)
• Properties dialog: suboptimal widgets for Link Target and Location (2025/01/12 18:21)
• GLib-GObject-CRITICAL in icon view when removing read permissions (2025/01/11 18:46)
• Open With Dialog - Improve the Use a custom command option (2025/01/10 20:48)
• "Thunar Preferences" entry now shows up intrusively in application launcher (2025/01/06 16:06)
• Sorting of search results doesn't work (2025/01/02 19:56)
• Thunar 4.20 colored text gets dimmed considerably when focus is lost (2025/01/01 17:09)
• Add 'Compact Layout' toggle to icon view (2025/01/01 01:01)
• Thunar 4.20 is no longer possible to assing control+backspace as a custom keyboard shortcut (2024/12/27 12:25)
• Dialogs: Window icon is missing sometimes (2024/12/21 19:39)
• File selection with Shift or Ctrl + Up/Down don't work when Expandable folders are enabled (2024/12/17 13:08)
• Add setting to prevent buttons style location bar from showing previous subfolders (2024/11/15 12:50)
• Make use of "g_volume_can_mount" to conditionally offer the option to mount (2024/11/14 15:32)
• Add option to permanently hide warning infobar when running Thunar on root account (2024/11/07 08:54)
• Thunar keyboard shortcuts are not initialized when opening preferences dialog from settings menu (2024/11/05 13:21)
• Middle-clicking and right-clicking on an entry in the back/forward "history" context menu is treated the same as a left-click (2024/10/29 16:38)
• Feature request: Columns for sorting files in icon view (2024/09/30 17:01)
• Use-after-free when hiding hidden items with side pane tree visible (2024/09/23 00:10)

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