no "network" location in thunar

mahmood · 2012-03-10 11:04:36

I am using xubuntu 11.10 (64 bit edition) which has XFCE 4.8 desktop.
Also the Thunar version is 1.2.3
The problem is I can not see the "network" location in the left side of file manager.
There are only "mahmood" (whicha is home), "desktop", "trash" and "filesystem".
How can I open remote locations?

ToZ · 2012-03-10 12:25:57

Make sure you install the gvfs-backends package.

mahmood · 2012-03-10 12:29:53

ok thanks.

lifeinthegrey · 2012-03-10 14:14:29

be aware that there is a bug in 4.8 that, due to gvfs-backends, causes thunar to take a good 30-40 seconds to load the first time upon boot (after being opened once it is fine until reboot). if you wish to eliminate this behavior, modify usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount to say AutoMount=false, and then it will only have that delay when you attempt to access network shares.

ToZ · 2012-03-10 16:01:30

Interestingly enough, in Xubuntu 11.10 (xfce 4.8, thunar 1.2.3, gvfs-backends 1.10.0), I don't experience this delay.

mahmood · 2012-03-10 17:34:35

Thanks for that. I wondered why that happen...

ToZ · 2012-03-10 22:45:28

Are you experiencing the delay?

lifeinthegrey · 2012-03-11 01:07:51

It appears more interesting that you are not experiencing it in Xubuntu 11.10 ... since others reported this as a bug ... but hey, if it doesn't do it for you, maybe you're just lucky. wink

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mahmood · 2012-03-12 11:43:25

yes I experienced the delay and fixed that.

ToZ · 2012-03-12 14:20:46

It appears then that I am lucky. I also have the precise beta running in a Virtualbox vm, and it does not experience the delay either. No idea why not, though.

Ahau · 2012-03-15 19:50:43

I don't experience this delay in Porteus (Slackware based) in regular use; however, the delay did occur when I had removed a run-time dependency for one of gvfs's dependencies. I think thunar was waiting for the gvfs networking capabilities to initialize and eventually gave up. I'd suggest checking to make sure all dependencies are installed and functional on any systems that are experiencing this delay.

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#1 2012-03-10 11:04:36

no "network" location in thunar

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Re: no "network" location in thunar

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