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Docker overlay devices showing up as "merged" on desktop

Issue Description

Using Docker (via DDEV) shows several devices "merged" on my desktop

Steps to Reproduce Issue

  1. have a Docker-Project (e. g. DDEV)
  2. start it: (here ddev start)
  3. watch the desktop showing multiple device-icons "merged" for each running docker-container
  4. image.png

Expected Behavior

"merged" devices should be (configurable?) invisible.

Additional Information

~/.config/xfce4/desktop/icons.screen0.yaml

has now > 50k rows ; 99% of those are like:

"/home/user/docker/overlay2/c74f078376f1c5684e59321ad2de73ec3e8e6e6b3e0d008aade05e72a26e0774/merged"
row: 4
col: 0
last_seen: 1761219839978517 

"/home/user/docker/overlay2/9744726c1924ca04a2c904ad19c55da7af7f21a4d086478682162fad601ace57/merged"
row: 10
col: 0
last_seen: 1741086164848542

... thousands more of them

Environment & Versions

  • OS: Arch Linux x86_64
  • Kernel: 6.12.59-1-lts
  • Resolution: 1920x1080, 5120x1440
  • DE: Xfce 4.20
  • thunar 4.20.6 (Xfce 4.20)
  • WM: Xfwm4
  • WM Theme: Nordic Theme: Nordic [GTK2]
  • Icons: Simply-White-Circles [GTK2], bloom [GTK3]
Edited by Sys Reset