gnome vfs items not appearing

[Michael Wood]

When you use "connect to server" in gnome the item does not appear after you finish entering the details. If you log out and log back in again the item appears on the desktop and in the places menu as you would expect.

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

Thanks Launchpad; making me look like an idiot again.

I didn't mean to add this Baltix

[David Portwood (dzportwood)]

Thanks for reporting your bug, in order to fix it we need some more information. What type of remote filesystem? What release of ubuntu? Are you using desktop-effects or not?

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

All remote file systems available, no desktop effects, up to date gutsy

GNOME nautilus-connect-server 2.20.0
2.6.22-12-generic #1 SMP x86_64 GNU/Linux

I've investigated a bit further and the gconf entries are being written ok

michael@fornax:~$ ls /home/michael/.gconf/desktop/gnome/connected_servers/
4 5 %gconf.xml

not sure why it starts with 4...

nautilus doesn't display them on the desktop and gnome panel doesn't add them to the places list. this is, until gnome is restarted via logging in and logging out. strangely restarting nautilus or gnome panel doesn't appear to cause it to draw them.

[David Portwood (dzportwood)]

I was just trying to see if I could make this happen, and the only way was incorrect R/W permissions on the directory connected_servers/ ? Have you checked your permissions? I'm really not sure how they would have become incorrect however.

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

All the permisions look normal:

connected_servers directory:

drwx------ 3 michael michael 4096 2007-10-07 15:27 connected_servers

inside connect_servers:

drwx------ 2 michael michael 4096 2007-10-02 16:40 4
-rw------- 1 michael michael 0 2007-10-02 16:37 %gconf.xml

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

Maybe this has something to do with running on a dual screen setup without xinerama

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

This is now fixed, i'm not sure what update fixed it though.

[Michael Wood (x3n)]

fixed