[SOLVED] Caja seems to scan all files after login to MATE

MilanKnizek · 2015-09-10 16:49:42

Hi,

recently, caja in MATE desktop became very unresponsive - especially after login, but also during normal work. (Caja gets autostarted in the background as it is part of the MATE desktop. It handles also the icons on the Desktop.)

The "top" says caja consumes about 100 % CPU for several minutes after login, "lsof | grep caja" run repeatedly confirms that caja scans files in the home directory. And I have lot of them.

I am pretty sure caja worked fine a few weeks ago. Downgrading to caja-1.10.1-2 (from pkg cache) did not help.

I tried to look for some kind of indexing service option in Caja settings, but I cannot find anything. Even if it were there, it scans too much and too often.

Is it just me or does anybody else suffer the same behaviour? What to do with it?

$ yaourt -Qs caja
community/caja 1.10.3-1 (mate)
    File manager for the MATE desktop (GTK2 version)
community/caja-extensions-common 1.10.0-1
    Caja extensions (common files)
community/caja-gksu 1.10.0-1 (mate-extra)
    Privilege granting extension for Caja using gksu (GTK2 version)
community/caja-image-converter 1.10.0-1 (mate-extra)
    A Caja extension for simple image conversions (GTK2 version)
community/caja-open-terminal 1.10.0-1 (mate-extra)
    A Caja extension for opening terminals in arbitrary local paths (GTK2 version)
community/caja-sendto 1.10.0-1 (mate-extra)
    A Caja extension for sending files (GTK2 version)
community/caja-share 1.10.0-1 (mate-extra)
    A Caja extension to quickly share a folder (GTK2 version)

Last edited by MilanKnizek (2015-09-15 05:56:25)

MilanKnizek · 2015-09-15 05:56:09

Okay, I resolved that eventually. The fault was mine: I set all of the xdg user dirs to /home/user/Documents (because I do not use video, pictures, templates, etc. and do not want these dirs hanging around).

The trouble was that caja scans all "templates" dirs to look for templates, obviously. Settings template dir to some empty dir worked just fine. Maybe removing its definition would do too, I do not care atm.

The user config file is $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Arch Linux

#1 2015-09-10 16:49:42

[SOLVED] Caja seems to scan all files after login to MATE

#2 2015-09-15 05:56:09

Re: [SOLVED] Caja seems to scan all files after login to MATE

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