Re: nautilus slow start up with external drives

On Thu, Jun 11, 2026 at 01:16:24PM -0400, Frank Bures wrote:
> On 2026-06-07 06:15, Dave Mitchell wrote:
> > Since moving from F40 to F44, I've seen that there is now an approximately
> > 4 second delay for nautilus to start up whenever there is an external USB
> > drive plugged into my laptop.
> > 
> > Any idea how to stop this?
> 
> I am shooting in the dark here but could it be that your external USB drive
> is sleeping and Nautilus waits for it to wake up?

On further investigation, the external drive was a red herring. Nautilus
now always takes a few seconds to start up, regardless of external drives.
But when I quit the only Nautilus window, it turns out that the Nautilus
process continues running for a minute or so with no displayed window.
During that time, "starting" Nautilus causes the window to re-appear
immediately. After a minute the background process exits, and Nautilus
again starts taking several seconds to start up.

The real change I'm seeing since F40 and before is that I never used to
see any initial delay starting Nautilus.
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