On 12/30/06, Brian J. Tarricone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> I've noticed that sometimes Thunar (and Xfdesktop) take much time to start > >>> thanks to FAM. Check if you have FAM running and if you do, try to stop > >>> FAM > >>> service and then see if Thunar loads faster. > >> > >> Thanks, Rodrigo. What is FAM? How can I turn it off? > > > > FAM is File Alteration Monitor, thunar/xfdesktop uses it for > > "auto-refreshing" the dir/files listing. It's usually a service, so a "sudo > > /etc/init.d/fam stop" should do the job for testing. > > I don't know if FC6 uses FAM or Gamin, (gamin is almost the samething as > > FAM), so you should check at your distro which on it uses. > > Right, and if you stop it, then thunar and xfdesktop won't be able to > tell when files are created, deleted, or changed, without the user doing > a manual refresh. So I wouldn't recommend that. > > Better would be to switch to using gamin instead of FAM, but how to do > so on $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE is an exercise left to the Googler.
No luck, Brian: # rpm -qi fam package fam is not installed # rpm -qi gamin Name : gamin Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 0.1.7 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc. Release : 8.fc6 Build Date: Mon 20 Nov 2006 11:03:45 AM WET Install Date: Mon 04 Dec 2006 10:20:04 PM WET Build Host: hs20-bc2-3.build.redhat.com Group : Development/Libraries Source RPM: gamin-0.1.7-8.fc6.src.rpm Size : 366536 License: LGPL Signature : DSA/SHA1, Mon 04 Dec 2006 02:02:50 PM WET, Key ID b44269d04f2a6fd2 Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> URL : http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/ Summary : Library providing the FAM File Alteration Monitor API Description : This C library provides an API and ABI compatible file alteration monitor mechanism compatible with FAM but not dependent on a system wide daemon. # Paul _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev