That's expected behavior without messagebus or gdu running.
gdu is what Xfce uses to monitor volumes.
Messagebus is the d-bus monitor. Notifies of system events (plugging of USB devices for example).

You can also disable the side pane in Thunar with CTRL-B. That should speed up loading.
I do wonder what is causing the slow loading for people. Do you have a properly formatted ~/.gtk-bookmarks?
Currently, there are 3 local SATA hard drives (8 partitions), a single SD flash card plugged into my multi-reader, and a usb flash drive plugged in. There is a 2 second delay in launching Thunar cold. Warm launches are instant.

Does Gnome Disk Utility work as expected? System -> Disk Utility.

--edit--
Grabbing at sticks :)
Are you using fstab entries for non-persistent (hotplugged) devices? Try commented those out. My fstab only has entries for permently mounted devices. I allow the necessary tools to handle removable devices

Mousepad
 

Hello Rob! Where is Mousepad in your package xfce-4.8?

I think mousepad hasn't been too well kept for the 4.8 series (but might get resurrected for 4.10).

This is a pretty good alternative, and compares feature + layout wise:

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.37/office/leafpad/

From Robby's NOTES file on his xfce-4.8 site:

I switched a long time ago to leafpad because mousepad had lots of bugs related to find and find & replace.

Mousepad in not between us anymore.. :)
leafpad or medit are the best alternatives, imo..

Here I'm still using xfce 4.6.2, because I never solved the problem described just few posts before.. :(

whats problem?

There is a recent thread about mousepad on the XFCE mailing list: http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xf...ne/028803.html
Also: http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xf...ay/028645.html

Well, I've tried this in the past and it didn't work, but I only looked at the properties and as they were correct, closed the window.
Yeah, even though I said I wouldn't, I've tried 4.8, again, but this time before moving the mouse wheel over the icon and having the mixer fail, I opened the properties window, changed the properties, changed them back to the correct settings, and then closed the window. Now it works. Go figure???!!!
:)

Latest Fun and Games with 4.8.
 

As mentioned just above the mixer problem is solved so I've been running 4.8.
Then one day last week I booted up and there was no mouse. I played around with the settings and it once again became visible. A day or so later I booted up and there was no window manager, so I deleted on the Xfce configurations files and started over.

Everything was fine until yesterday morning when I booted up and, again, the mouse was not visible.
This time I said, "enough" and started using KDE. However, I've come to prefer Xfce so yesterday afternoon I, once again, deleted the configuration files and started over. Everything was fine for the rest of the day.

This morning I booted up and, again, everything was fine. As I was going out for a few hours I shut the machine down and when I came back almost 4 hours later and booted it up, once again the window manager was missing and the mouse was represented by a simple "X", so I'm now back to using KDE.

Anyone know a cure for this?
Thanks.

Regarding the auto-mounting issue, I think I've found the solution on Arch Linux forums.

You need to create an ~/.xinitrc file (or modify it if it exists) and add the following line:

According to the user who posted the solution:

Hope this solve your problem. I use startx on a Debian Sid system to log into Xfce. No Login Managers in the way, just startx, and it solved the authorization issue.


Kind regards.

cwizardone,

I used to have a similar problem with a custom cursor theme under Xfce 4.6. I simply changed to another cursor theme and it's solved. Hope it helps.

Thanks for your reply.
I've found from trial and error that if one stays with the default settings there are few problems. However, pick a different theme for the desktop or mouse and the problems will follow shortly.
I've, finally, I hope :) given up on 4.8x and have switched to KDE 4.6.5 (minus the evil triplets).
With all the additional baggage that came with Xfce 4.8, it is using almost as much memory as KDE, so why bother with it.

Gone back to Xfce 4.6.2. It just "feels" and looks (with a little tweaking) better, imho, and 4.8x is not ready for prime time.

Even if it were it doesn't bring anything new to the table that I use and the additional baggage that comes with it is hardy worth the "price" for what little there is in "improvement."

I installed xfce 4.8 from Robby and it is working fine.
Just a question how to setup avahi? In the botting process gives a warning with a missing name and the daemon don't start :x

Other question, I can mount usb disks and pens, but i can't create files or folders?

from http://connie.slackware.com/~rworkma...vahi/READ_THIS

I chose uid/gid of 85 for this:

/etc/passwd:avahi:x:85:85:User for Avahi:/dev/null:/bin/false
/etc/group:avahi:x:85:

I guess rc.M is the place for this:

# Start avahidaemon
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon start
fi
# Start avahidnsconfd
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd start
fi

and then rc.K ??

# Stop avahidnsconfd
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidnsconfd stop
fi
# Stop avahidaemon
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon ]; then
/etc/rc.d/rc.avahidaemon stop
fi