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(list view + status bar enabled) Pressing the 'End' key or 'Home' key doesn't go to the actual end or beginning if the last file has ー or ／ or 〜 in its file name AND there are enough files that the file in question is far off-screen

(tested in Mint 20.3 Xfce, a live session of Xubuntu 22.04, a live session of Mint 21 beta Xfce, and a fully-updated local installation of Mint 12 beta as of 2022-07-15; note that Mint 20.3 uses Thunar 4.16.8 while Xubuntu and Mint 21 beta use Thunar 4.16.10)

2024 UPDATE: Also tested with Thunar 4.19.3 in Xubuntu 24.10

　

In Thunar set to "list view" with the status bar enabled, pressing the 'End' key doesn't go to the actual end if the last file has ー or ／ or 〜 in its file name and there are enough files that the file in question is far off-screen (e.g. you would normally have to scroll an additional full page's length to reach the file)

Similarly, pressing the Home key afterwards will not subsequently scroll to the top.

Note that the symbols ー and ／ and 〜 are special unicode character and not their normal ANSI equivalents of - and / and ~

  1. boot your operating system
  2. Open Thunar
  3. Make sure Thunar is set to list view and is using it by default
  4. navigate into a folder with a lot of files, such as /etc/
  5. (if using /etc/ then open the folder as root and, once again, make sure Thunar is set to list view and is using list view by default)
  6. create a new blank file with one of the following file names or move/copy existing files with one of the following names into the current folder:
  • zzz ー test
  • zzz ／ test
  • zzz 〜 test
  1. scroll to the top of the current folder (/etc/ in this example)
  2. go back or "Up" to the parent folder (in this example that'd be / aka the root of the drive)
  3. once again go into your folder with a lot of files (/etc/ in this example)
  4. press the "End" key on your keyboard
  5. ...note how Thunar does not actually scroll all the way to the bottom but rather to a point a few lines above the very bottom.

If Thunar did actually scroll to the bottom on step 11

  1. press the Home key
  2. observe how Thunar did not scroll to the top
  3. wait a second, press End, wait another second and press Home again
  4. close Thunar and re-open Thunar
  5. toggle the window's "maximized" state (if unmaximized then maximize; if maximized then unmaximized)
  6. navigate to the location of the file previously created in step 6 (/etc in this example)
  7. press the "End" key on your keyboard and observe
  8. wait a second, press Home, wait another second and press End again

The expected behavior would be for Thunar to scroll to the very bottom when the "End" key is pressed regardless of what the file name is of the last file, and should be able to scroll to the top after pressing the "Home" key.

　

Video demonstration (Xubutu 24.10 live ISO with Thunar 4.19.3):

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Edited by NM64