Thunar very slow on FC6

[Paul Smith]

On 12/31/06, Chong Yu Meng <chongym at cymulacrum.net> wrote:
> > > I am beginning with XFCE on Fedora Core 6, and everything seems to
> > > work fine, except Thunar that takes often a long time to pop up. Do
> > > you know how to improve the very slow Thunar? My computer is a fast
> > > one (with a Dual Core with 1GB of RAM). Do other people here are
> > > having the same problem? Someone in Thunar mailing list has raised the
> > > suspicion that the problem may be caused by dbus and/or hal.
> >
> > Let me tell you, in addition, that Thunar seems works perfectly on
> > KDE, but *not* on XFCE.
>
> I use XFCE almost exclusively, and I have had no problems with Thunar
> opening or running. Have you installed all the updates? My laptop has
> lower specs than yours, except for the RAM -- I too have 1 GB.

Thanks, Pascal. Thunar seems to be working fine now, after a reboot.

Paul