{"id":4043,"date":"2026-05-17T17:44:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:44:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T14:44:52","slug":"a-possible-fix-for-nautilus-being-slow-as-molasses-in-ubuntu-24-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2026\/05\/17\/a-possible-fix-for-nautilus-being-slow-as-molasses-in-ubuntu-24-04\/","title":{"rendered":"A possible fix for Nautilus being slow as molasses (in Ubuntu 24.04)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per title. <a href=\"https:\/\/discourse.nixos.org\/t\/psa-gnome-files-nautilus-very-slow-in-unstable-post-2025-11-03\/72242\">A post on NixOS users&#8217; Discourse<\/a> implicated <code>XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR<\/code>, although that one was about a bug in Glib newer than what&#8217;s in Ubuntu 24.04, involving trailing slashes. But I had mine pointed to <code>$HOME\/tmp<\/code>, and apparently Nautilus tries to read all the garbage files I have therein, almost choking to death while doing so.<\/p>\n<p>I made a separate, new (empty) directory, pointed <code>XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR<\/code> to it, killed all existing Nautilus processes and hallelujah! It&#8217;s no longer slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a new (empty) directory, pointed XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR to it, killed all existing Nautilus processes and hallelujah! It&#8217;s no longer slow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3406,3137,13686,2679],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gnome","tag-nautilus","tag-nixos","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}