Thunar no longer deletes to trash; permanent delete only

[Bob Zubaly]

Hi all,
I have just realized that Thunar 1.6.2 in Gentoo has lost the ability
to delete to the trash using the right-click menu item. I can drag
and drop to trash, and the .local/share/Trash/files/ directory seems
to function normally.

I am 100% sure I had this functionality previously, because I know
that it was the default behavior; in order to permanently delete, I
had to hold shift while using the right-click menu.

I attempted to fix the issue by deleting
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar* without success.

What could I be missing here? Thanks for any ideas.

[killermoehre]

Post by Bob Zubaly
Hi all,
I have just realized that Thunar 1.6.2 in Gentoo has lost the ability
to delete to the trash using the right-click menu item. I can drag
and drop to trash, and the .local/share/Trash/files/ directory seems
to function normally.
I am 100% sure I had this functionality previously, because I know
that it was the default behavior; in order to permanently delete, I
had to hold shift while using the right-click menu.
I attempted to fix the issue by deleting
~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/thunar* without success.
What could I be missing here? Thanks for any ideas.

Hi,

the trash in thunar is provided by gvfs. Maybe you missed a USE flag?

Regards


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[Mathias Brodala]

Hi,

Post by Bob Zubaly
I have just realized that Thunar 1.6.2 in Gentoo has lost the
ability to delete to the trash using the right-click menu item.

Have you tried force-quitting Thunar via "Thunar -q"? I have noticed
that sometimes the trash service is started after Thunar (as can be
seen by an "unavailable" icon on the trash panel applet). Restarting
Thunar this way always gives me back the option to move files to trash.

BTW I?m using 1.6.1 here and haven?t noticed anything like this before
the 1.6.x release.


Regards, Mathias

[Bob Zubaly]

Post by killermoehre
the trash in thunar is provided by gvfs. Maybe you missed a USE flag?
Have you tried force-quitting Thunar via "Thunar -q"? I have noticed
that sometimes the trash service is started after Thunar (as can be
seen by an "unavailable" icon on the trash panel applet). Restarting
Thunar this way always gives me back the option to move files to trash.
BTW I?m using 1.6.1 here and haven?t noticed anything like this before
the 1.6.x release.

Thank you for your suggestions; I checked the USE flags for thunar and
all available flags are in use, gvfs is installed, but there isn't a
USE flag in thunar for gvfs:

'[ebuild R ] xfce-base/thunar-1.6.2 USE="dbus exif libnotify
pcre startup-notification udev -debug {-test}" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash" 0
kB'


Mathias, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'force-quitting
thunar'? Do you mean an action after it is running, or otherwise? In
any case, 'thunar -q', when run from the command line, does nothing as
far as I can tell.

[Mathias Brodala]

Hi Bob,

Post by Bob Zubaly
Mathias, I'm not sure I understand what you mean by 'force-quitting
thunar'? Do you mean an action after it is running, or otherwise? In
any case, 'thunar -q', when run from the command line, does nothing as
far as I can tell.

Thunar never really quits but remains in memory demonized. To have a
clean restart, one can use the mentioned command to kill the demon. As I
said, missing trash functionality returns after this for me.


Regards, Mathias