XFCE desktop icons refresh question

[Olivier Fourdan]

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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.

As far as I know, xfdesktop doesn't refresh itself and the user needs to
press F5 to manually cause a refresh.

But I'm not the most knowledgeable person in this area, so I'm
forwarding your question to the Xfce devel mailing list, so that Brain
and Benny can answer your question.

Cheers,
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   - Olivier
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