[Thunar-dev] Thunar filesystem monitoring broken? (gamin)

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Fri Jan 19 18:19:19 CET 2007


Maximilian Schleiss wrote:
>> I just noticed that file system monitoring seems to be broken using
>> gamin in latest svn. Thunar clearly states that its supposed to use
>> gamin at compile time.
>>
>> Steps to reproduce it are fairly easy:
>>
>> 1) Open up a terminal window and touch a file.
>> 2) Open up a Thunar window pointing to the same directory you just
>> created the file in.
>> 3) Use the terminal window to remove the touched file (rm file)
>> 4) Thunar does not show the changes until the directory the file is
>> deleted from is selected again (reread).
>>
>> Am I the only one seeing this problem?
>>
>>   
> Same problem here.

Works fine here, using gamin-0.1.7_2 on FreeBSD. Maybe an inotify
problem? Try changing the gamin config to use stat and try again.

> Max.

Benedikt



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