Files on Desktop

[Alexander Larsson]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 05:10 -0400, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 02:02 -0700, Scott Talbot wrote:
> > 
> > 	Thought I'd throw this out here.  Recently, I noticed that files saved
> > to the Desktop do not show up there, either on the display or in the
> > File manager.  They can be ls'd in the terminal, but are otherwise
> > invisible until the system is re-booted (possibly logout->login, haven't
> > tried that).  I can also make them show up by dragging a different file
> > to the desktop (that must be triggering a refresh)
> > 
> 
> I noticed this too the other day--but you don't have to reboot or
> logout/login.  you can just killall nautilus, which will cause it to be
> restarted.  not a perfect solution, but it's less time-consuming than
> rebooting/logging out/in.  =:)  anyone know why nautilus is acting
> funky?

Another option is pressing ctrl-r on the desktop.

However, this is really a bug in gamin. Which i believe has been fixed
in recent rawhide versions.

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