FC3 not showing desktop icons

By shrike
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I've just installed FC3, and when I save something to the desktop, nothing appears. They will show up in terminals, and when I browse to the desktop folder, but that's all.

To get them to appear I've got to browse to the folder, and reload it. Is there a way I can change this?

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What are you doing that doesn't work?

I just right-clicked and did a Create Document > Empty File, and it created a file which was shown. I was able to gedit it and save it. It exists on my desktop, and through the command line.

Not sure what is going on with your system... :unsure:

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This happens to me too. I'll save a file, say a pdf from the web, to the desktop and then I'll minimize all windows to look at my desktop. The pdf I just downloaded won't be on the desktop. I can open Nautilus and browse to my desktop and it still won't be there. I have to hit reload to make it show up. I can also browse to it using the terminal. As soon as I do an "ls" in my desktop folder, it shows up.

It's happened numerous times since I've install FC3...clean install too. It has to be a Gnome 2.8 bug.

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This happens to me too.  I'll save a file, say a pdf from the web, to the desktop and then I'll minimize all windows to look at my desktop.  The pdf I just downloaded won't be on the desktop.  I can open Nautilus and browse to my desktop and it still won't be there.  I have to hit reload to make it show up.  I can also browse to it using the terminal.  As soon as I do an "ls" in my desktop folder, it shows up.

It's happened numerous times since I've install FC3...clean install too.  It has to be a Gnome 2.8 bug.

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No its not a Gnome bug. Gnome is now using gamin as the monitor through its file browser (Nautilus). This program ensures that Nautilus is always kept aware of any changes that are made. That is why you need to hit refresh to view any newly added file. Fam was the old way and gamin is really a branch of fam which stands for File Alteration Monitor so you can decypher what that means.

I dont know if FC3 installs any of them as they are not needed but do make your file manager recognize changes and keep up with them much more efficiently. Even in KDE this is the case and it takes a few seconds or sometimes even a refresh to show a newly added file through the gui. Microsoft Explorer ovecomes this by being in a constant state of "refresh" which isnt to good on memory usage.

But this is not a bug, its normal behaviour. Check your install and see what you have running. Since you are using Gnome, make sure you install the latest version of gamin and stick it in your start script so it loads by default, this should help in Nautilus keeping track of newly created files. Conversely if you run KDE, gamin, while being a much better work off fam, runs quite poorly, so you will have to stick with fam which runs off the horribly unsecure portmap...

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