kubuntu: konqueror doesn't monitoring file change

[Matthias Heiler]

Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> writes:

> AFAIK, nothing in the kernel is *required* for file monitoring.  There is a 
> kernel patch—inotify, I think—which makes the process more elegant, but it 
> should still work without that.
> 
> What you *do* need, though, is a daemon process which monitors the files and 
> reports changes.  On Kubuntu (and possibly Ubuntu as a whole) that appears to 
> be provided by gamin, rather than fam.

Thanks for the info.  gamin is installed.  It looks like an ordinary
lib (i.e., I don't see an init-script that starts a server).  Probably
it registers with the kernel...

There definitely should be a KDE-logfile or -monitor where error
messages go.  Right now debugging is only guesswork.  Just as opaque
and time-consuming as with Windows.

Matthias