Since a Manjaro update two or three months ago (XFCE stable) the notifications remain on the desktop when I unmount or ‘safely remove’ any USB storage, although the setting in “Notifications” is to fade after 10 seconds (before that update these did fade away.) Other notifications still do fade out …

[image] ddeberhar: Please, make this a little clearer to me and excuse my lack in native English: Did you mean to say: sync is not enough - or - sync is enough? (… to have the data written safely to the storage…) sync is enough - but only if you wait for the prompt to return

Thunar notification "USB safe to remove" - staying forever

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linux-aarhus 21 July 2023 06:11 3

The disappearance of the notification is not a sign of safe removal.

Only when the device is removed from the file manager it is safe to remove.

The topic is has been up and around for a long time causing this guide to be written.