[Thunar-dev] Desktop Refresh

[Jelle de Jong]

Thanks for testing I did exactly what you did thanks for the "mv" tip.

It still will not refresh on xubuntu. I tested it on a fresh vmware
install. So I think it is xubuntu related how can I test what is the
problem.

PS what system do you use? and pkill is a saver program than killall


Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Lets formulate it different the loss of data had nothing to do with the
>> desktop problem it was related to something else.
> 
>> The problem here is that the desktop is not being synchronized correctly
>> when using a symbolic link as desktop reference.
> 
>> Example:
> 
>> You have to remove your desktop first to be able to create the symlink,
>> you can do this by: rm ~/Desktop/ -R:
> 
>> #make a dir to redirect your desktop to
>> mkdir ~/test
> 
>> #make the symboliclink
>> ln -s ~/test ~/Desktop
> 
>> #create a file in your desktop
>> touch ~/Desktop/test.txt
> 
>> #check if your desktop screen is synchronized.
>> File test.txt not shown at the desktop and had to manually synchronize
>> the desktop (Ctrl+R)
> 
>> This is a bug right!
> 
> Those steps work properly for me, and test.txt shows up on the desktop
> without needing to do a manual refresh with ctrl+r.  So, no, it's
> probably not a bug; it's probably a problem with your setup.
> 
> Note that I killed xfdesktop before messing with the ~/Desktop
> directory, and restarted it after setting up the new symlink.  As I said
> before, xfdesktop will not react properly if you delete and recreate the
> ~/Desktop directory (regardless if it's a symlink or not) while it's
> running.  I'm not inclined to change this behavior.
> 
> So, for reference, I did:
> 
> $ killall xfdesktop
> $ mv ~/Desktop ~/Desktop.bak
> $ mkdir ~/test
> $ ln -s ~/test ~/Desktop
> $ xfdesktop &
> # (wait for xfdesktop to start)
> $ touch ~/Desktop/test.txt
> 
> And that worked fine for me: test.txt icon appeared shortly after I
> executed that last command.
> 
> 	-brian
> 
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