Nemo slow on first start up

[worthy crest]

When I start nemo for the first time, it takes about 20 seconds to open. After looking online, I suspected that the issue might come from gvfs, even though the version I have should fix the bug that occurred with it, and in fact running killall gvfsd didn't help so I don't think the issue is with gvfs. If I try to open nemo after opening it for the first time in the session, it opens almost instantly, which is what I would expect for the first launch aswell.
Running nemo from the command line doesn't give much information.

Ah I just noticed that when my phone is plugged into my computer (I do it for faster charging), nemo takes quite a while for the first time. However if I don't have my phone plugged in it's normal

[cosmic musk]

someone reported the same thing in general chat earlier today. try to install dolphin or pcmanfm-qt and see if the issue persist in these. if so, probably nothing you can do. mint issue.

[worthy crest]

Yeah I actually did that and the thing is both of those work normally but on dolphin the icons are broken and the app looks ugly, and then pcmanfm also kinda looks ugly (the qt version is even worse imo), so unless you know of any other good looking file manager, I'd rather just stay with nemo for now. Do you think I should report this as a bug or something?

Ok thunar is pretty decent, so if it keeps working I guess I'll use it as a replacement for now

[cosmic musk]

since you confirmed it's exclusive to Nemo, yes. report it on GitHub under linuxmint/nemo

though look in the issues page if it hasn't been reported before

I know that dolphin will look out of place on cinnamon. same way nemo is ugly on plasma. just wanted to test if it works as expected.

[worthy crest]

Alright I'll do it tomorrow

[worthy crest]

Hm actually I just tested again and it seems that the issue is occuring on nemo, thunar, and pcmanfm. However on dolphin there doesn't seem to be any problems. I can reproduce the bug by just unplugging and plugging my phone back in, although sometimes when I do that the file managers launch faster than when I do a reboot.

[cosmic musk]

hmm you can try to start them via terminal. just type nemo or thunar or whatever and see if it logs any warnings / errors. I don't think I can actually help much here.