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

Alexandre Moreira alexandream at gmail.com
Fri Jan 19 18:45:21 CET 2007


2007/1/19, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de>:
> 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.

Hey, there Benny. Just answer me a silly question: Does thunar works
only with Gamin ? My distro only has fam and I'd like to know if I'll
have to package gamin to have this feature :) So far it didn't find
fam, so I guess its gamin only huh ?


>
> > Max.
>
> Benedikt
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