File Operation Progress popup box

Linux and Unix-Like UNIX and Linux Applications
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I frequently get a popup box saying File Operation Progress.

Another small box shows on the upper right side.

When I right click it, a box opens saying "File Operation Progress.'

What is that and how can I stop that?

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Hello,

Could you let us know which operating system you're using, and in which desktop environment or window manager this happens (e.g. KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) ? Also, does this file copying notification actually appear only when you are copying files (which I presume would mean it's an expected feature of the graphical environment you're using), or does it just randomly pop up when you're not doing any file management tasks ?

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Ubuntu Mate 20.04.

Marco - The MATE Window Manager

The file notification only appears when I am copying files.

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@cyclist ,
suggest you visit https://guide.ubuntu-mate.org/ , there's a community site https://ubuntu-mate.community/ , join it and see if they can help, this behaviour is most likely a setting in the app(let) (config ?) that does the copy operation(s) (speculation on my part)

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Thanks for your help.

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np. if you find a solution please feel free to share back with the community.

thks

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I have posted to https://forum.xfce.org/.

They are the developers of Thunar.

They are now "guessing" as to the cause.

andy@7 ~> thunar -V
Gtk-Message: 09:08:40.486: Failed to load module "appmenu-gtk-module"
thunar 4.16.10 (Xfce 4.16)

Copyright (c) 2004-2020
The Thunar development team. All rights reserved.

Written by Benedikt Meurer benny@xfce.org.

Please report bugs to https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/thunar.

Yes, it really looks like that with no content visible.

I could go back to using Caja, but I do not want to settle for 2nd best.

Thanks,
Andy

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Is it installed at all?
Try
apt search appmenu-gtk-module

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I posted on the Thunar forum. They do not know what the problem is.

I did a purge of Thunar which also removed all configuration files.

And re-installed Thunar.

I would like to write a script that would copy some large files from on directory to another to see if the problem is still occurring

I would like the files from /home/andy/Downloads/ to be copied to /home/andy/TESTING/.

Thanks for any help.

Andy

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Then consider moving to macOS, which has a very good UI (Aqua) on top of the worlds largest UNIX OS user base :slight_smile:

macOS: File management

See also:

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andy@7 ~> apt search appmenu-gtk-module
Sorting... Done
Full Text Search... Done
appmenu-gtk-module-common/jammy,jammy,now 0.7.6-2 all [installed,auto-removable]
  Common files for GtkMenuShell D-Bus exporter

appmenu-registrar/jammy,now 0.7.6-2 amd64 [installed,automatic]
  Appmenu DBusMenu registrar

I know that Linux is pretty good at logging stuff.

Is there a log file that might show what is happening when the "File Operation Progress" popup occurs?

I am not ready to give up on this. :slight_smile:

Thanks.

Vielen dank.