Is there a way to turn off background folder scan when opening a "Home" icon on XFCE desktop? This takes time due to a lot of files in home folder (source repos, why not).
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I do following steps and it works for me:
- Open
/usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount
this file using an editor:sudo nano /usr/share/gvfs/mounts/network.mount
- change AutoMount=true to AutoMount=false.
- Save file and login again.
This will stop Thunar
stating the Network every time you run it.
Have a nice time.

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For starters, if your computer is up to date you can already speed up the first start up of Thunar by adding it to your startup applications.
In Session/Startup you can add a new app, call it Thunar maybe ;) and in the command field you can put /usr/bin/thunar --daemon
so it will start in the background and be faster when you call a window.
Be careful not to "Save Session" on shutdown with this enabled, this will start a thunar for every-time you shutdown this way and will cause problems.
It might be the thubmnail generator, tumbler. what-is-tumblerd I removed it from my install because it was causing folders I open to task the CPU, and delay because it is making thumbnails for every file.
How to remove:
With Synaptic Package Manager:
Search for tumbler
click on the check box for it and select "Mark for Removal"
With Terminal:
sudo apt-get remove tumbler
Note: Removing tumbler will ask you to remove xubuntu-desktop
this is ok since it is a "meta-package" and will not remove xubuntu, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages
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How did you remove it? If I try to apt-get remove it, it tries to remove xubuntu-desktop package too. :| – Bibhas Aug 20 '12 at 20:50
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yes, that is ok, xubuntu-desktop is a meta-package, http://askubuntu.com/questions/66257/what-is-the-difference-between-a-meta-package-and-a-package , you can remove it. "removing a meta package does NOT remove the packages it installed" , https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MetaPackages – Mateo Aug 20 '12 at 20:51