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JASx

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Registered: 2021-02-21

Posts: 25

Can I prevent losing my desktop when gvfs-metadata hangs?

If I delete, say, a browser config in my Linux home directory, I lose the desktop and the process gvfs-metadata spins up taking a lot of system resources.

My recovery process is killing gvfs-metadata and running xfdesktop. Xfdesktop alone won't bring it back.

Is it obvious to anyone what is happening?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/633955/ … d-metadata