"Safely remove" in context menu is missing for USB hard drives but not USB thumb drives, yet Thunar lists "Safely remove" on both types
Issue Description
When you right-click on a USB hard drive's desktop icon, the "Safely remove" option is missing.
Steps to Reproduce Issue
- Make sure the "Removable drives" desktop icon is enabled
- Connect a USB hard drive (a USB adapter or enclosure paired with an internal hard drive can also be used)
- Double-click on the USB hard drive's desktop icon to mount it if it isn't already
- Right-click on the USB hard drive's desktop icon and observe
Expected Behavior
"Safely remove" should be included in the right-click context menu that appears in the aforementioned step 4
Additional Information
The "Safely remove" option is present if you right-click on the desktop icon for a USB thumb drive.
Similarly this "Safely remove" option is present for both USB hard drives and USB thumb drives if you right-click on them within Thunar proper.
Not shown in the screenshots is that I even confirmed this occurs with a WD Passport which is a hard drive that natively uses a USB controller (i.e. cannot be "shucked": https://youtube/watch?v=TxN2fEN_ap8 )
Also, FAT32 vs NTFS doesn't seem to make a difference.
Environment & Versions
- OS distribution and version: **openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce live ISO snapshot built 2025-12-23 **(also tested on Fedora 43 Xfce)
- Overall Xfce version: 4.20
- xfdesktop version (git hash if not a release): 4.20.1
- thunar version (if issue related to file/launcher icons): 4.20.6 (4.20.3 in Fedora)
- Windowing system (X11/Wayland): X11
- GTK Theme: Greybird-geeko (default for openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce)
- Icon Theme: Adwaita-Xfce (default for openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce)
- UI Scale Factor: 1x (no scaling)
Screenshots
Edited by NM64





