The topic seems to be a bit abandoned suggesting all is good as it is not.
A little workaround since PCManFM handles the desktop well, to install CAJA file manager with its plugins (originally comes with Mate desktop). As I work with it for about two weeks it seems to be OK. No freeze, no problem with Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
I am one of those who are enjoying lightning speed and great scalability of Lubuntu for years, and it would be really sad having to give it up and change to a "maybe shinier" but much slower desktop. I want to try anything to bring it back to life since PcManFM is my favorite, but editing, renaming, copying, moving lot of files as I do makes this freezing problem quite an annoying and somehow dangerous. Until a reliable solution comes up I work with Caja as a second possibility of file managing.
If any of "suffering" Lubuntu Bionic users is interested in using caja and its plugins, install the following packages:
The topic seems to be a bit abandoned suggesting all is good as it is not.
A little workaround since PCManFM handles the desktop well, to install CAJA file manager with its plugins (originally comes with Mate desktop). As I work with it for about two weeks it seems to be OK. No freeze, no problem with Lubuntu 18.04.1 LTS.
I am one of those who are enjoying lightning speed and great scalability of Lubuntu for years, and it would be really sad having to give it up and change to a "maybe shinier" but much slower desktop. I want to try anything to bring it back to life since PcManFM is my favorite, but editing, renaming, copying, moving lot of files as I do makes this freezing problem quite an annoying and somehow dangerous. Until a reliable solution comes up I work with Caja as a second possibility of file managing.
If any of "suffering" Lubuntu Bionic users is interested in using caja and its plugins, install the following packages:
sudo apt install caja caja-open-terminal caja-extensions -common caja-actions caja-image- converter mate-terminal caja-rename engrampa
("mate-terminal" is for "Open terminal here" function, and "engrampa" archive manager is for "create-archive" function.)
Thanks, Regards,
Janos