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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Odd behaviour?
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 11:06:09 +0000
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On 05/12/2024 10:34, Carlos E.R. wrote:
> On 2024-12-05 08:59, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> On 04/12/2024 18:41, Rich wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 03/12/2024 22:24, Andy Burns wrote:
>>>>> The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What I find puzzling is how it appears in the GUI but isn't on the
>>>>>> actual machine file system
>>>>>
>>>>> funky characters in filename?
>>>>>
>>>>> ls -la | cat -v
>>>>
>>>> Nope. Still no sign
>>>>
>>>> I think some part of the GUI environment builds a cache, and its in
>>>> that, but not in the real world so to speak
>>>
>>> What is the GUI file browser program you use under Mate?
>>>
>> Caja
>>
>>> Many "GUI file browsers" have a tendancy to "combine" plural actual
>>> disk paths into the 'appearance' of a singular view (and "Desktop" is
>>> one of those 'views' that GUI dev's think need this miss-feature).
>>>
>>> So it is possible the file it is located somewhere other than
>>> ~/Desktop/ and the GUI is merging together that other location with the
>>> contents of the actual ~/Desktop/, and presenting the combination to
>>> you as "Desktop".
>>>
>> Hmm. Still doesn't say why it cant be deleted/found Even from the GUI 
>> file manager
> 
> Because it would be on another directory.
> 
But if the GUI knows where it is the GUI should be able to delete it.

Rebooting X windows disappeared it, anyway

> 
>>> Which would explain why it does not appear when you actually view
>>> ~/Desktop/ with ls from a terminal.
>>>
>>
> 
> 

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