I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce and Thunar.  Thunar (and other similer managers) enables e.g. connecting to SSH server using SFTP address like sftp://mysvr/ and browsing it like a local folder.  I normally access my remote box via command line, but occasionally I appreciate this GUI sugar.However, in default configuration, this has a pretty annoying downside: File systems accessed this way are automatically mounted under folder $HOME/.gvfs, which creates quite a nightmare for tasks that involve traversing through home folder (typically dotfile searching, or analyzing disk space usage issues).GNOME 2.2 RNs say:GVFS also offers a FUSE mountpoint in ~/.gvfs/ so that GVFS mounts  can be exposed to legacy applications using standard POSIX IO.So I guess it's possible to turn this off (I assume by legacy they don't mean Nautilus and the likes).However, I can't seem to find any information on how to do it.  Any pointers?
Disable mounting to `$HOME/.gvfs`
debian;gvfs
Gvfsd(1) states:ENVIRONMENT       GVFS_DISABLE_FUSE           If this environment variable is set, gvfsd will not start the fuse           filesystem.So if you configure your display manager or ~/.profile to set this variable it should work.On the other hand most unix utilities have switches to disable recursion into other filesystems (mostly -x, for find it's -xdev)