Re: dolphin does not refresh its view automatically
On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 1:35:14 PM CEST laurent Trinques wrote:
> Le mardi 21 août 2018, 05:48:38 CEST Eike Lantzsch a écrit :
> > On Tuesday, August 21, 2018 2:25:11 AM -04 inkbottle wrote:
> > > Since a month of so (I've put a line on #debian-kde at the time),
> > > Dolphin
> > > does not refresh its view automatically, in some cases at least, and
> > > that
> > > in contrast to what I've always been used to.
> > >
> > > What I've just done, as an example situation: from one dolphin window I
> > > open a pdf file with Okular; then in Okular I do "save as", to have a
> > > version which I can annotate freely, and I save that version in some
> > > other folder.
> > >
> > > Then I close dolphin and okular.
> > >
> > > Then I fetch an already opened other dolphin window, maybe inactive for
> > > quite some time, (through C-F10), which is already a view of the
> > > directory
> > > I saved the file in.
> > >
> > > And there, the file doesn't show; possibly inducing me to believe that I
> > > made a mistake in the previous "saving".
> > >
> > > But it is not the case since F5 does show the file.
> > >
> > > My latest (sid) upgrade was like 10 days ago; Prior to something like
> > > one
> > > month ago, the behavior was that of an auto-refreshing of the view.
> > >
> > > It is not critical by far, but if other people observe some similar
> > > misbehavior, I'd be glad to know about it.
> > >
> > > Alternatively it might be some miss-configuration specific of mine; but
> > > then the "bug" was definitely not present before.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Chris
> >
> > Yes, same behaviour here with Dolphin version 16.08.3 on Debian Stretch.
My version must be 17.08, so it is possible it is unrelated.
> > I cannot recall when this behaviour started but before [what?] Dolphin
> > used
> > to refresh automatically.
> > Greetings
> > Eike
>
> English link :
>
> https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watche
> rs
Thanks, I will look into that "inotify" thing; I'll let you know.
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