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.

• File Hightlight: Allow icon and compact view selection corner radius to respect GTK CSS (2026/10/03 09:42)
• Moving/Copying dialog: total size is calculated after first file got copied (2026/09/25 12:36)
• Copying stop takes time (2026/09/21 16:15)
• Undo Operation does not register partially written files (2026/09/20 17:05)
• Thunar exits while owning the clipboard, stranding clients mid-request (breaks Chrome's clipboard permanently) (2026/09/20 14:03)
• Copying a file/folder, renaming it, then pasting its path pastes the post-renamed path (2026/09/20 11:21)
• Tab title and tooltip freeze when the view type changes, because thunar_window_replace_view does not rebind the tab label (2026/09/20 11:08)
• Tree side pane resolves view paths against the child model, so drops onto tree folders are refused (2026/09/20 09:37)
• Crash when folding/unfolding side pane tree view (2026/09/20 09:33)
• [Enhancement request] Moving, Copying dialogs: `Stop`, `Pause` isn't deactivated (2026/09/19 19:50)
• CSS Background color of selected file in standard view ignored when "show file highlight" is enabled (2026/08/29 12:01)
• Menu that opens when dragging items with right click does not offer the option to create a symlink (2026/08/13 09:26)
• Provide preference for toolbar icons size (2026/08/09 09:18)
• Migrate existing exo-open commands in ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml (2026/08/08 11:49)
• Bookmark menu icons show error icons when sidebar is closed (2026/07/17 11:26)
• Thunar does not honor sound theme setting (2026/06/27 19:12)
• Failure to observe RENAME_EXCHANGE of renameat2 system call (2026/06/17 08:17)
• Thunar Lags (2026/06/04 23:04)
• Facilitate quick keyboard or programmatic navigation to saved locations (2026/05/31 09:07)
• It looks like thunar is loading directories twice in some cases (2026/05/16 21:21)

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