pcmanfm and thunar not responding to double click

[Jane Atkinson]

I have been running Xubuntu Lucid one one machine and a command-line Lucid install with lxde and openbox on another machine, and I'm having the same problem with pcmanfm and thunar on both machines.

If these file managers are set to double click to open (the default), then I can open one directory level only e.g. home directory to Documents. If I try to open Documents/some-other-dir, it doesn't work. I can't even select the directory. The only way to get into a subdirectory is by opening thunar or pcmanfm from a terminal.

If I set these file managers to open with a single click, then I can go into subdirectories with no difficulty.

Oddly enough, the problem doesn't seem to apply to Nautilus and ROX-filer. ROX-filer's default is single click, but setting it to double click doesn't cause the problem to appear.

It's appearing only on Lucid. The kernel version is 2.6.32-13-generic. One machine is a Toshiba Satellite A10 and the other is an Asus EeePC 900.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for reporting this issue. Are you using detailed-view mode in Thunar? If so, is this a duplicate of bug 520118 ?

[Jane Atkinson (irihapeti)]

Yes, I'm using detailed-view mode when this happens. I think we can regard this as a duplicate of bug 520118.

Pcmanfm is exhibiting the same behaviour, ie. only shows the problem when in detailed view mode and not in other modes. This might lend weight to the idea that the problem is at a lower level.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 520118, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.