Thanks for testing I did exactly what you did thanks for the "mv" tip.
It still will not refresh on xubuntu. I tested it on a fresh vmware install. So I think it is xubuntu related how can I test what is the problem. PS what system do you use? and pkill is a saver program than killall Brian J. Tarricone wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
