Re: Nautilus Refresh Call

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Mit, 2006-03-29 at 14:36 +1000, Saul Lethbridge wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> My application renames some files to make them invisible (adds a '.').
> However Nautilus needs to be manually refreshed for this file to
> become hidden. How can I signal Nautilus to refresh? BTW I'm very new
> to programming so please be simple..

That should work just fine on a correctly set-up linux system. Current
gnome-vfs versions use inotify or FAM/gamin to monitor file and
directory changes, at least on local filesystems. If it doesn't work it
might be a bug in the distro you're using.

Regards,

Jürg