[Solved] XFCE 4.8: Disable Thunar Location Bar Autocompletion?

I just noticed that for some reason when I start typing a path in thunar, it force-pastes the autocompletion in, and moves on. For example I type "/e" and it force-pastes "/etc/" which makes me end up typing "/etc/tc" I find this rather annoying, though the only thing similar to this I found was a mail-list for thunar-dev back in 06, and the only thing said at the end was that it was a bug. I'm pretty sure that this has since been fixed, or this person had the same thing happen to them, since it wasn't doing this for me earlier this week. When I run thunar as root, autocompletion works correctly, so it makes me think that its more of an issue with a config file in my home folder and am wondering if anyone knows which one that I might need to edit.
Edit: Must have been something weird with my first few installs [which were pretty noobish]. I have yet to encounter this bug/misconfiguration on my latest installs where I actually knew what I was doing.
Last edited by DarkSniper (2011-09-05 23:10:52)

jeslinmx wrote:~/.config/thunar? If I recall correctly there should be configs there.
That was indeed the right folder for the configurations, but in both of the files, for accelerators and the thunar rc file, I was unable to find any options to change or add to alter this behavior.
It could be a regression of what the mailing list said was a bug back in '06, since I know the lower version of thunar on my other computer running Xubuntu doesn't have this issue. I'll have to check my thunarrc file on that box to see if theres something different about that configuration.
If not, it doesn't hurt me much. Going alt-f2 and just typing thunar and then the path I want isn't too annoying, though I found it convenient when it actually worked in thunar.

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