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
> 
> 



You really should place an icon of your program in a submenu of
Applications/ instead of the desktop.  I have only 2 icons on my desktop
which was created by installing a couple applications using wine which I
plan to move later.

I think most people keep a clean no-icon desktop these days and place
launch buttons on the menu or gnome panel.

I'm not absolutely sure, but I suspect having a lot of icons on the
desktop area uses more resources.



jay