[Thunar-dev] thunar, fam & gamin

[Benedikt Meurer]

Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> I have a question about thunar and file monitoring. If thunar is built
>> with fam support, will it work with gamin installed. If yes (iirc fam
>> is
>> a superset of gamin, or something like that ?), will it try to run
>> gam_server when run ? Or something else should run it so everything
>> work ? 
> 
> Answers to myself: it's ok to build thunar with fam support and then
> install gamin (here libfam can be provided by gamin). Don't know if it's
> optimal or not. Benny ?
> 
> gam_server should be started by calls to (f|g)am library. Sometimes it's
> not started here, I guess. (i just had some problem about this, but did
> another test and then it worked..)

Building with FAM then switching to Gamin will work, but not the other
way around, since FAM lacks the FamNoExists function.

Benedikt