XFCE desktop icons refresh question

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Jose J. Rodriguez wrote:
> On 06/16/2006 01:08 PM, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi Jose,
>>>
>>> Jose J. Rodriguez wrote :
>>>    
>>>>> Hi, I am the developer of vl-hot, the external block device
>>>>> auto-mounting system (as in pendrives, USB cameras, etc) used by
>>>>> Vector
>>>>> Linux. VL uses XFCE on all its versions (Standard, SOHO and the Deluxe
>>>>> versions of both of those). Although vl-hot was originally designed to
>>>>> show desktop icons of the drives only in KDE (never found a way to
>>>>> show/remove icons on the other WMs + Rox), we are currently testing
>>>>> the
>>>>> beta of XFCE 4.4 for the upcoming VL6. This version has native support
>>>>> for desktop icons, so I started adapting vl-hot for this, which was
>>>>> initially easy, as it uses the same $HOME/Desktop directory as KDE.
>>>>> However, we still have not found a way to refresh the desktop to show
>>>>> the icons once created (it is of course, a normal .desktop file
>>>>> created
>>>>> "on the fly"). We found a reference to "xfdesktop -reload", but this
>>>>> seems to refresh everything but the desktop icons. Any help on this
>>>>> matter would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>>         
>>
>> If thunar-vfs was compiled with gamin or fam support (if the latter,
>> famd must be running), it should auto-update.  Otherwise you can hit F5
>> to refresh.
>>
>>   
> Thanks very much. We've added gamin and recompiled Thunar and now
> auto-refresh works great! We have another little problem though: I can't
> get the desktop actions to show up on the context menu. From what we've
> come up with after some searching, they seem to be supported. Here's an
> example of the .desktop files I'm testing with XFCE:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Version=1.0
> Type=Link
> Name=sda-vol1
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/pendrive.png
> URL=file:/mnt/vl-hot/sda/vol1
> Actions=Unmount;UnmountSignal;UnmountKill
> 
> [Desktop Action Unmount]
> Exec=/lib/udev/vl-hot_umount sda1 desktopicon unmount
> Name=Unmount
> 
> [Desktop Action UnmountSignal]
> Exec=/lib/udev/vl-hot_umount $devname desktopicon unmountsignal
> Name=Unmount (signal processes)
> 
> [Desktop Action UnmountKill]
> Exec=/lib/udev/vl-hot_umount $devname desktopicon unmountkill
> Name=Unmount (kill processes)

Are they working in thunar?  If so, they should work in xfdesktop as
well.  I have no idea why if they aren't.

> By the way, I used the wrong email to send the original query. Can we
> please continue this through my internet email, which I can access from
> everywhere? It's joe1962 at gmail.com. Thanks.

Then set a reply-to properly.

	-brian

P.S.  Please keep discussion on the mailing list.

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