Re: Thunar 4.20.1 issue – some files not shown in long lists

[Alexander Schwinn]

Hi,

please use our issue tracker to report issues. This one is for thunar:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/-/issues/

Cheers, Alexxcons


Am 11.01.25 um 10:02 schrieb Piscium:
> Hi all,
>
> First my thanks to the Xfce developers for the new 4.20 version.
>
> This week I noticed an issue when I used Thunar on a folder that has a
> few hundred files. As usual I was using Thunar in the 'compact list
> view' mode. Because there were more files in the folder that could be
> displayed in the Thunar window I used the arrows to scroll Thunar to
> the left and right. I was looking for a file that I knew existed but
> it was not shown according to its alphabetical order. I pressed F5 to
> refresh and that file appeared. But shortly after I was looking for
> another file which too did not appear, I pressed F5 to refresh and
> that file appeared. F5 seems to refresh, but not the whole folder,
> apparently it refreshes only some files near the one I am looking at
> by alphabetical order.
>
> For a bit of context, I am using Thunar 4.20.1 on Arch Linux, the
> system language is English. The names of the files are all in
> ASCII/UTF8. I could not take screenshots because the source tree I was
> looking at is proprietary. The file names are built with English
> abbreviations separated by underscores, something like:
> prep_auto_a
> prep_auto_b
> prep_carb_b1
>
> The names can be longer than that, like with 25 characters.
>
> The tour of 4.20 [1] mentions changes to Thunar for performance. I am
> left wondering if what I saw was an unintended effect of those
> changes.
>
> [1] https://www.xfce.org/about/tour420
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