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dtd

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Registered: 2011-12-08

Posts: 73

Desktop icon is not removed after moving deleting a file

This xfce 4.12_1. The title kinda says it all. The file is no longer in ~/Desktop. If you access the icon you get a popup: "Error when getting information for <path>/home/user/<filename>: No such file or directory"

The icon remains until xfce is restarted. This happens if the desktop is lock or not.

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,007

Re: Desktop icon is not removed after moving deleting a file

You're running on FreeBSD, right? I've noticed a number of FreeBSD xfdesktop bug reports created just recently:
- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12173
- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12171
- https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12174

If you can first quit xfdesktop:

xfdesktop -Q

...then run it with debug mode enabled:

xfdesktop -e

...you might get some good debug information about what is happening. Might be useful to add it to the relevant bug report.

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