10.10.5: Deletion of folders does not work

[Paulo88]

XnView: MP 10.10.5 - 64 bit
OS: Linux (Fedora 43 KDE) 64bit

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Short description of the problem
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Folders cannot be deleted, does not matter if it is empty or not.
When trying to delete a folder the confirmation box appears, but after clicking "Yes" the folder is not deleted.
Files, however can be deleted, this only happens with folders.

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Further infos and things I tried
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Permissions should not be an issue as a new test-folder in my home-folder has the same problem.
Delete is working in Dolphin and also using another appimage "Double commander".

I already removed the xnview.ini and tried different versions of XNView MP back to 1.4.5, all show this behavior.
The problem occurred at around January/February 2026, where I probably installed Fedora updates.

I set up a new virtual Fedora 43 and tried XNViewMP there, it shows the same behavior.
So it seems to be broken even in a new installation of Fedora 43.

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Effect: Deletion of folder is not possible
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To reproduce:
1. Select Folder to be deleted
2. Right-Click and Delete OR Press "Del" on keyboard
3. Confirm the deletion of the folder in the message prompt
4. Folder is not deleted
Actual behavior (bug): Folder is not deleted

Expected behavior: Folder should be deleted

[xnview]

you delete folder from Folder treeview or from thumbnail view?

[Paulo88]

I tried both, if I delete in the Thumbnail-view the folder nothing happens.
If I try to delete in the treeview the folder disappears from the treeview, but is not really deleted as it stays in the thumbnailview and selecting refresh it reappears.

I recorded a small video of the problem from the newly installed virtual Fedora installation.

2026-04-19 15-08-46.mp4

If you want me to try anything else, just let me know.

[xnview]

could you send us the logs when you try to delete folder?

[Paulo88]

Sure, can do.
But as I was not able to find a log-file, I will provide:
1. Standard Output when started from a terminal
2. strace-file (strace -o xnview_strace.txt xnviewmp)

Logs.tar.gz

If you specify what log file specifically you require I should be able to provide it.

PS:
Something else I noticed is that this seems to only happen with the appimage-version.
The rpm-version I was not able to test as will fail to install with missing dependencies, as mentioned here: viewtopic.php?t=46833
After trying the binary version (tgz) this version is able to delete the folder.
So for Fedora at least the only working version seems to be the tgz one.

[xnview]

1. Standard Output when started from a terminal

thanks. do you have gvfs-trash or gio?

[Paulo88]

Only gio is installed.

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[user@Mammut-MKV:~]$ which gio
/usr/bin/gio

[user@Mammut-MKV:~]$ which gvfs-trash
which: no gvfs-trash in (/home/user/.pyenv/shims:/home/user/.pyenv/bin:/home/user/miniconda3/condabin:/home/user/.local/bin:/home/user/.pyenv/bin:/home/user/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/user/.local/bin)

Let me know if I can provide further infos.

[xnview]

if you try

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gio folder

, folder is removed?

[Paulo88]

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gio remove zzTest

Successfully deleted the folder "zzTest" completely.

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gio trash zzTest

Successfully moved the folder "zzTest" to trash.

[xnview]

it seems that gio can't be started in XnVIew. I've tried on fedora 44, and it works

[Paulo88]

I cannot explain why it is working for you, as I installed a completely new version of Fedora 44 KDE and I cannot delete any folder.

As I am no programmer, just a simple IT-Admin, I brute-forced myself to the library that seems to cause the issue in the appimage version.
I extracted the appimage using "XnView_MP-1.11.2.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage --appimage-extract".
I then deleted more and more lib-files from the extracted appimage so that the app can still start, but CAN delete folders.
Afterwards a re-extracted the image and only delete the libs that seemt o be related.

The culprits seems to be "libglib-2.0.so.0.4800.2" located in "squashfs-root/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/" AND
"libgio-2.0.so.0.4800.2" + "libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4800.2" + "libgobject-2.0.so.0.4800.2" located in "squashfs-root/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/".

After deleting these libraries and its symlinks, XnViewMP seems to fall back to the system-installed library "libglib-2.0.so.0.8800.0".
Now I am able to delete folders without issue.

Maybe update these libs in the appimage version as they seem out of date?

[xnview]

you didn't use the TGZ package?

[Paulo88]

As mentioned in my post from Apr 26 2026, the tgz-version is working without issue out of the box.

This issue pertains to the appimage-version.

[xnview]

Thanks to your detailed description I can reproduce the problem.

[Paulo88]

Thanks for taking the time to look into this issue.