[Thunar-dev] Thunar very slow on FC6

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Rodrigo Coacci wrote:
> On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/30/06, Rodrigo Coacci <rcoacci at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I've noticed that sometimes Thunar (and Xfdesktop) take much time to start
>>> thanks to FAM. Check if you have FAM running and if you do, try to stop FAM
>>> service and then see if Thunar loads faster.
>>
>> Thanks, Rodrigo. What is FAM? How can I turn it off?
>
> FAM is File Alteration Monitor,  thunar/xfdesktop uses it for
> "auto-refreshing" the dir/files listing. It's usually a service, so a "sudo
> /etc/init.d/fam stop" should do the job for testing.
> I don't know if FC6 uses FAM or Gamin, (gamin is almost the samething as
> FAM), so you should check at your distro which on it uses.

Right, and if you stop it, then thunar and xfdesktop won't be able to
tell when files are created, deleted, or changed, without the user doing
a manual refresh.  So I wouldn't recommend that.

Better would be to switch to using gamin instead of FAM, but how to do
so on $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE is an exercise left to the Googler.

	-brian


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