Minor problems with Xfce

James Butler sweetnavelorange at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 13:13:13 PDT 2008


Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Butler wrote:
> > Manolis Kiagias <sonic2000gr at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> >> James Butler wrote:
> >>     
> >>> My other problem is possibly unrelated, but any actions I perform
> >>> which would remove or update icons on the desktop (deleting a
> >>> file, emptying Trash) don't take effect until xfdesktop is
> >>> restarted or I log out and then in. Any ideas? Notably, automatic
> >>> detection and mounting of USB drives, which seems to be a fragile
> >>> area for many HAL users, works perfectly for me.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance,
> >>> -James Butler
> >>>   
> >>>       
> >> Just solved this one, quite silly it was ;)
> >> It seems Thunar is not built with FAM (File Alteration Monitor)
> >> support, hence it does not know when it needs to update folder
> >> views (or the desktop for that matter). So, simply rebuild with
> >> FAM:
> >>
> >> # cd /usr/ports/x11-fm/thunar
> >>
> >> # make config
> >>
> >> (Select FAM from the options dialog)
> >>
> >> # make deinstall reinstall
> >>
> >> Restart your X session. It will work then.
> >>     
> >
> > Aha! I will try this when I get home - thanks. Anyone know why
> > Thunar does not default to using FAM/gamin? gamin doesn't look too
> > heavy.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > James Butler
> >
> >   
> 
> It seems the default options for Thunar do not include gamin for some 
> reason. Although I already had it installed anyway.  If you installed 
> from packages, these are built with the default options, so not
> having FAM support is expected.

Sorry, yes that was my point - what is the reason for:

FAM		"Enable FAM support"		off \

in the Makefile? I know KDE4 has had problems with FAM on FreeBSD, but
I think that's the SGI FAM not gamin? It seems that Xfdesktop is
slightly lost without it.

> P.S. Putting the questions list back on this

Oops, thanks.
James Butler


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