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.

• Newly created folder immediately contains copy of parent folder containing half of parent's folders moved to it (2025/06/11 19:16)
• Trash files are opened in a non-default application (2025/06/11 18:19)
• Thunar daemon / GtkRecentManager creates orphane recently-used.xbel files on shutdown (2025/06/11 11:46)
• Filter box captures Ctrl key focus, blocking Ctrl-F, etc. (2025/06/09 00:22)
• Displayed file "Type" always follows file extension when it's a known extension (taking precedence over MIME type?) (2025/06/08 12:12)
• Critical warning "GFileInfo created without standard::type" from g_file_info_get_file_type (2025/06/07 13:10)
• Critical warning/potential segfault in thunar_standard_view_update_statusbar_text_idle (2025/06/07 13:06)
• tree-view side pane - wrong folder selected when clicking desktop shortcut (2025/06/01 14:47)
• Prevent leaking ThunarFiles when closing thunar while thumbnailing is in process (2025/05/30 10:42)
• Use-after-free in SmcCloseConnection after libSM timeout (2025/05/22 11:43)
• [Feature Request] metadata info enhancement (via exiftool) (2025/05/21 21:54)
• Drag and drop of images in SSHFS-mounted dir from another program makes Thunar UI unresponsive (2025/05/11 20:10)
• Thunar daemon remounting cifs systemd automount folder itself after unmounted (2025/05/11 12:48)
• Wrong directory content until refresh after context menu's `Create archive...` (2025/05/09 23:52)
• sftp: Navigating in remote sites is very very very slow (2025/04/26 17:09)
• Slowness when browsing MTP folder in list view (2025/04/26 12:44)
• Unable to set sidepane header font weight to normal. (2025/04/26 08:15)
• Closes with "Lost connection to Wayland compositor" when moving the mouse while loading huge directories (2025/04/19 21:57)
• Add hotkeys to cycle through tabs in Preferences window (2025/04/13 19:13)
• Add ignore list for built in Search tool (2025/03/27 15:07)

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