desktop refresh

[Paul Pianta]

On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 20:18 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 09:46:33 -0500, jim lawrence <fedorajim at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I end up either forcing a refresh by opening nautilus to my desktop and
> > > hitting Ctrl-R, or if I wait long enough - it will refresh itself (ie.
> > > 10 - 30 mins?)
> > >
> > > But both of those solutions suck quite a lot.
> > >
> > > Anyone experiencing the same problem and/or have a solution?
> > >
> 
> the stuff that is supposed to do this automatically is gamin. make
> sure thats enabled in your system and file a bug against it in
> bugzilla.redhat.com if this is not a already reported thing

thanks for the quick responses :)

How do I check if gamin is enabled on my machine? 'ps aux|grep gamin'
returns nothing ...

It is just the desktop that doesn't refresh - any other directory in
nautilus is fine so I dunno why gamin would not work on just one
directory ...

pantz