continuous desktop refreshing every 1 or 2 seconds

[David Holden]

On Friday 17 Dec 2004 14:06, icebox wrote:
> On Friday 17 December 2004 09:39, David Holden wrote about [kde]
>
> continuous desktop refreshing every 1 or 2 seconds:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   A couple of kde machines here have their desktops continually
> > refreshing about once every second any one know what might be causing
> > this.
> >
> > I think It may be related to the desktop icons.
> >
> >  thanks for any advice.
> >
> >  Dave.
>
> Do you have only shortcuts on your desktop?
>
> The ideea is that if some icons on the desktop are really files and
> those files are opened the program opening them might create tmp (maybe
> hidden) files in the same folder as the opened file (that is in this
> case on the desktop) and that makes kde refresh...
>
> I hope I'm not telling bullxxxx here... ;)

 Yes, I do have files on the desktop, I'll move them to a folder and link to 
them instead and see how that affects things.

 cheers,

 dave.


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