where do desktop updates come from?

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Wednesday 29 November 2006 6:55 pm, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> Which KDE component is supposed to track ~/Desktop and change it to reflect
> the state of the filesystem?  My various removeable things are showing up
> and disappearing on cue, but I put several files in ~/Desktop, and they're
> not on the desktop.  I'm thinking some kio_something needs restarting
> perhaps.  Or I could just kill and restart kdesktop, but I'd rather learn
> something than take a hammer to it if there's an opportunity to learn here.

copy a file to your desktop, in the graphical part, and then do a find or 
search for it in your home directory.  That should give you an idea where 
this stuff is landing at least.

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