Re: multiple desktops

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 02:58 -0800, Sergey Krivov wrote:
> > Nautilus is normally using file monitoring on the
> > directories its
> > monitoring, which should detect this i believe.
> > Since it doesn't there
> > must be something strange going on, either with your
> > setup or exactly
> > how nautilus monitors the desktop dir (maybe it
> > being a symlink is the
> > problem?). Try to experiment with chaninging files
> > in the desktop dir
> > and see if you can get it to work...
> 
> that is true. seems like Nautilus monitors file
> changes, but does not monitor the Desktop directory
> change; i know nobody would assume that it may change.
> If i relink Desktop directory and touch a file in new
> Desktop directory nothing happens, but if i touch a
> file in the old Desktop directory, which Nautilus
> incorrectly continues to show, it shows new file.

What if you don't change the Desktop symlink, but instead change the
desktop directory pointed to by xdg-user-dirs. 

I think you can do this with something like:
 xdg-user-dirs --set DESKTOP ~/Desktop4