When using custom folder in folder view, new files do not show on desktop. 1. Create secondary activity and switch to it 2. Configure desktop 3. Select Folder View 4. Select Location 5. Specify a folder 6. Choose any folder in your home 7. Apply everything 8. Copy a file to your desktop file 9. File does not show on desktop Expected result: File will be visible on desktop When I change custom folder to "Show a place" and then change back to custom folder, files appear on desktop.
I don't understand your steps, especially #8. Are you copying to the custom folder from the outside, using a filemanager?
Sorry, there is a typo. It should say "8. Copy a file to your desktop folder". Point is that I have second activity with folder view and I chose my folder. Then I copy a file to that folder and I don't see it on desktop. When I change desktop folder to other folder and then return to my folder, file appears on desktop. It doesn't matter how the file got there. I tried copying via Double Commander, drag & drop via Dolphin and 'touch file.txt' within my folder. Neither of those files is displayed on desktop.
Sorry, I need some more information just to make absolutely sure. There's two ways to change the folder that Folder View shows when used as the desktop contaiment: 1) System Settings -> Applications -> Desktop path 2) "Configure Desktop" -> Location I think you used '2', right? Just to make sure (because the way directory updates happen differs between them). And then you copy a file to the folder you configured, and it doesn't show up. The most frequent reason this happens is: The system is using inotify to monitor folders for changes, but something else on the system is using inotify a lot, and hitting the system limit of too many inotify watches. You could find some debug hints here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13758877/how-do-i-find-out-what-inotify-watches-have-been-registered
Yes, I'm using 2) "Configure Desktop" -> Location And yes, then I copy a file to the folder I configured, and it doesn't show up. Inotify seems to be fine with my computer. I have like 60 watches and limit is 65536. However I just realized that problem might be related to symlinked folder. When I reported this bug, I used folder like this /home/elman/symlinkedFolder/Desktop. Today I was trying folder without symlink in its path and everything was working as expected - files were updated. Then I used path /home/elman/symlinkedFolder/Desktop and copied files did not show. After that I tried again folders without symlink and they didn't work. So something about symlink could have broken things.
Thanks, that's useful extra info. I'll see if I can reproduce with the symlink.
Updating status in the meantime.
I remember a time when this was not working, but it appears to be working now. Can you still reproduce?
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Hi. I can't reproduce anymore, so it seems it has been fixed. Thank you.