On 12/30/06, Paul Smith <[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. > > > # > > > > So FC6 probably uses gamin, and since my problems were with FAM, I don't > > know if gamin suffers from it also. > > > > Brian: I suggested him to stop FAM just for testing purposes, to see if it > > was his problem or not. > > In addition, I would like to mention that I am suspecting that Thunar > also collides with VMware, as FC6 cannot shutdown VMware server at > shutdown time after having I used Thunar and not VMware, under XFCE.
After a reboot, thunar seems to be working as fast as it is publicized! Congratulations to its developers for the great work! Paul _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev