RESOLVED: fam - Gnome menus not updating

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

Currently running fam-2.7.0-r4, and the fam deamon is running and starts succesfully at boot. However, gnome menus are not updated until I logout and back in.

This is becoming a major irritant!

Anyone got any ideas? I've tried several different versions of fam.

TIA.
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juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 943 Location: we the north

crudh · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:19 pm Post subject:

Are you sure fam is running? I used to have the problem where fam started up fine, but it died after a short time and I had to zap it and restart it and then it would keep running until reboot.

Check if the process is running.

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 943 Location: we the north

my fam is running. other things get updated, but not recent documents.

however, the file ~/.recently-used does get updated. what doesn't get updated is the "Recent Documents" in the Places menu

j

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 943 Location: we the north

doesn't even help to restart famd.

j

crudh · Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:50 pm Post subject:

You could try gamin instead, thats what I'm using. It's a drop in replacement for fam that doesn't need to be run as a service, it is automatically run and it lives in user space (so no root rights needed to start it).

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

On the machine I've just built famd is definately running, ps -af | grep famd confirms this.

I don't want to really try something else until I understand why this isn't working, as I have another box with the same use flags & packages working fine.
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Schwinni · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:35 am Post subject:

I have the same problem on 2 machines.
I'm almost used to logout and login, although this is not really a solution...

Greetz,
Schwinni

crudh · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:12 am Post subject:

Schwinni · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 11:45 am Post subject:

I think that could work.
But still, famd should do its job!

Greetz,
Schwinni

Angry Geek · Apprentice Joined: 23 Apr 2003 Posts: 162 Location: .uk

I tried gamin and it seems to work quite well.

So is fam on the way out?
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crudh · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject: