[gentoo-user] Re: slow MTP in Thunar, was fine in Gnome

[Grant Edwards]

On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com> wrote:
> On 9/11/19 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi <raffaele.belardi@××.com> wrote:
>>> After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring
>>> files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become
>>> unbearably slow. From my understanding both Gnome (Nautilus?) and Thunar
>>> use gnome-base/gvfs which with mtp USE flag pulls in media-libs/libmtp
>>> so I don't understand why this big change in behavior. Any hints?
>> I've tried a number of MTP implementations on Linux, and none of them
>> have proven stable and reliable.  IMO, you're better off installing an
>> ssh/scp server and using sftp or sshfs.
>>
>> IIRC, there's a farily extensive recent thread on this.
>
> What disturbs me is that the same hardware combo worked fine with Gnome
> till one month ago, it broke only when I switched to XFCE so it must be
> a software configuration issue.

I saw similar behavior with MTP from one day to the next with no
changes in anything.

> Command line would be fine for me but not for the kids.

You can mount sftp and ssh as filesystems just like you do with MTP.

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