refresh the desktop?

[Jay Daniels]

On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 21:31 -0700, John R. Sowden wrote:
> On Sunday September 06 2009 20:27:26 John wrote:
> > John R. Sowden wrote:
> > > Is there a way to refresh the desktop, that is, re-read the
> > > /home/user/Desktop directory?
> > > tia,
> > > John
> >
> > maybe ctr-alt-bkspace to restart the gui service? not sure, it's been a
> > while...
> actually I was hoping for a command that I could put in a program, so, if I 
> changed the desktop contents under program control, the same program would 
> refresh the screen by re-reading the directory.
> 
> tia, John
> 
> 

It's the same as it is in Windows, F5 refreshes the desktop.  restart
gnome-panel with..

killall gnome-panel


jay