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karthikp

Member

From: Mangalore, India

Registered: 2014-01-04

Posts: 2

Enlightenment File Manager freezing problems

I have installed Enlightenment 17 as my WM and am currently using the default file manager which comes with it (EFM). The file manager works fine most of the time. But, whenever I try to create a new file / folder using the right click menu in EFM, it freezes. It also causes enlightenment to freeze. Creating a new file / folder using the terminal works just fine. The problem occurs only when I use the context menu in EFM. There's no warning or error, it just freezes.

I have no idea what is causing this problem. It seems to work perfectly fine except for this. Anybody else experiencing this?

Scimmia

Fellow

Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,729

Re: Enlightenment File Manager freezing problems

EFM doesn't get much testing because none of the devs use a graphical file manager. The only advice I can give you is to try E18 whenever it's finally in the repos and see if it's better. If it's still a problem there, a bug report will need to be filed.

karthikp

Member

From: Mangalore, India

Registered: 2014-01-04

Posts: 2

Re: Enlightenment File Manager freezing problems

Any idea where the log files are located? If I can figure out what the problem is, maybe I'll be able to patch it.

89c51

Member

Registered: 2012-06-05

Posts: 741

Re: Enlightenment File Manager freezing problems

This is a known bug in E17. Don't try to create new files this way until E18 reaches Arch stable (hopping it won't take much longer). Open a terminal and use mkdir.