On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 02:58 -0800, Sergey Krivov wrote: > > Nautilus is normally using file monitoring on the > > directories its > > monitoring, which should detect this i believe. > > Since it doesn't there > > must be something strange going on, either with your > > setup or exactly > > how nautilus monitors the desktop dir (maybe it > > being a symlink is the > > problem?). Try to experiment with chaninging files > > in the desktop dir > > and see if you can get it to work... > > that is true. seems like Nautilus monitors file > changes, but does not monitor the Desktop directory > change; i know nobody would assume that it may change. > If i relink Desktop directory and touch a file in new > Desktop directory nothing happens, but if i touch a > file in the old Desktop directory, which Nautilus > incorrectly continues to show, it shows new file.
What if you don't change the Desktop symlink, but instead change the desktop directory pointed to by xdg-user-dirs. I think you can do this with something like: xdg-user-dirs --set DESKTOP ~/Desktop4 -- nautilus-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
