-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jelle de Jong wrote: > Lets formulate it different the loss of data had nothing to do with the > desktop problem it was related to something else. > > The problem here is that the desktop is not being synchronized correctly > when using a symbolic link as desktop reference. > > Example: > > You have to remove your desktop first to be able to create the symlink, > you can do this by: rm ~/Desktop/ -R: > > #make a dir to redirect your desktop to > mkdir ~/test > > #make the symboliclink > ln -s ~/test ~/Desktop > > #create a file in your desktop > touch ~/Desktop/test.txt > > #check if your desktop screen is synchronized. > File test.txt not shown at the desktop and had to manually synchronize > the desktop (Ctrl+R) > > This is a bug right!
Those steps work properly for me, and test.txt shows up on the desktop without needing to do a manual refresh with ctrl+r. So, no, it's probably not a bug; it's probably a problem with your setup. Note that I killed xfdesktop before messing with the ~/Desktop directory, and restarted it after setting up the new symlink. As I said before, xfdesktop will not react properly if you delete and recreate the ~/Desktop directory (regardless if it's a symlink or not) while it's running. I'm not inclined to change this behavior. So, for reference, I did: $ killall xfdesktop $ mv ~/Desktop ~/Desktop.bak $ mkdir ~/test $ ln -s ~/test ~/Desktop $ xfdesktop & # (wait for xfdesktop to start) $ touch ~/Desktop/test.txt And that worked fine for me: test.txt icon appeared shortly after I executed that last command. -brian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFlpgj6XyW6VEeAnsRA3sUAKCy7eOfwOekiqP5ALW02ow68T23lQCdHrSK HlRvxRR/HCm9CtCkvLQXXK0= =b/BM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev