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

[Raffaele Belardi]

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.

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

raffaele