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.

• [Enhancement request] Display filename on `Verifying file contents...` (2025/11/27 08:11)
• Symlinks to .desktop files in XDG_DATA_DIRS not trusted (2025/11/27 07:50)
• Toolbar custom action icons not scaled (2025/11/22 08:19)
• Performance loss between thunar 4.20.5, 4.21.2 and current git master (2025/11/20 08:03)
• [Ehancement request] `Queued...` during the _first_ file copying (2025/11/17 14:34)
• Crash on MTP mount (2025/11/16 19:18)
• Crash on quit (2025/11/16 19:04)
• Right side of split view is not updated when the active directory is deleted (2025/11/16 09:23)
• Can't access Samsung phone data over MTP since 4.20.5 (2025/11/15 18:27)
• Long delay when refreshing large directories outside of user's home dir (2025/11/15 11:44)
• NTFS Win32 drives are not detected as such, allowing invalid filename characters (2025/11/14 23:14)
• Follow Custom Action position on the Custom Actions window when changing it's order. Also, add support to Drag/Drop custom actions to change their order. (2025/11/11 07:37)
• Properties dialog do seek for named pipe (2025/10/29 15:30)
• [PATCH] Background threads have the same priority as the UI thread (2025/10/22 16:19)
• When searching for characters in Thunar, the displayed names and locations are different (2025/10/17 09:00)
• Gtk-CRITICAL when reducing the size of the thunar window to the minimum size (2025/10/08 17:58)
• External Volume Problem (2025/09/28 22:04)
• Folder context menu is difficult to open due to event interception by files (2025/09/26 21:33)
• Allow to modify bookmark shortcuts in the shortcuts editor (2025/09/10 18:52)
• Copying doesn't preserve modification time/date for folders, symlinks (2025/09/09 21:14)

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