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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>> But gam_server is running?
>>> Okay Benny, I demand clarification! Do you posses powers unknown to
>>> mankind or something?!
>>>
>>> As of right now, its suddenly working .. and I have absolutely NO IDEA
>>> why .. I changed exactly zero things regarding gamin.
>>>
>>> Granted, I compiled thunar with --enable-debug=full, yet, that
>>> shouldn't actually make a difference now, should it?
>>>
>>> What I noticed though is the following: Before I recompiled thunar it
>>> used to go into some sort of daemon mode whenever I executed it from
>>> the console (means, it started itself and forked into the background
>>> leaving me with a usable console). It doesn't do that anymore now.
>>> Maybe you can make something out of that ..
>> Uhm, Thunar never forked itself into the background, atleast not the
>> upstream version. The --daemon command line option simply keeps Thunar
>> running even if the last window is closed (for the trash support).
>> --enable-debug=full doesn't change anything wrt file system monitoring.
>> Dunno what's going on there.
> 
> I think what he's talking about is that, when 'Thunar --daemon' is
> running already, and you run a normal Thunar instance, instead of
> starting a new process, it calls the daemon via the dbus interface to
> open a new window, and then quits.  From the perspective of sitting at
> the terminal, it just looks like the Thunar started from the terminal
> has forked into the background.

Ah, ok, could thought of that as well. ;-)

> 	-brian

Benedikt