Just reporting that I have now experienced the USB flash drive-related behavior as described by rockdoctor above.rockdoctor wrote:I've seen the failure to respond when clicking on a desktop icon, but not the slowdown. Sometimes the desktop icons call vanish. It often (but not always) occurs when unmounting a USB flash drive. When the problem does occur, I open a run dialog, kill any runing instance of pcmanfm, and runto get it working againCode: Select all
pcmanfm --desktop --profile=LXDE
In short, I have a 256 Mb USB flash drive that I had plugged in and mounted. I unmounted and removed it so I could use it with my all-in-one printer/scanner. (The all-in-one printer/scanner is not supported, so I scan to USB and subsequently mount the USB on my Linux box.) After scanning, I plugged in and mounted the USB flash drive. Interestingly, PCManFM did not show the scanned files on the mounted USB flash drive. To confirm the files were on the USB flash drive, I opened a terminal and worked my way to the USB flash drive. The scanned files (jpg's) were there.
Just to be sure it wasn't a one off thing, I unmounted, removed, and then remounted the USB flash drive. PCManFM still did not show the scanned files. They were still there as evidenced at the command line.
At this time, I also checked on my "Home" Desktop icon. Clicking it did nothing as has been reported above.
In a terminal, I issued the "killall pcmanfm" and the "pcmanfm --desktop" commands. All is now working again.