On Friday 17 Dec 2004 14:06, icebox wrote: > On Friday 17 December 2004 09:39, David Holden wrote about > > 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. -- Dr. David Holden. (Systems Developer) Crystallography Journals Online: <http://journals.iucr.org> Thanks in advance:- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See: <http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html> Public GPG key available on request. ------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.