Another Linux Newbie... PLEASE HELP ME! :(

[FreshFlesh]

As u can imagine, i've switched to Linux recently, though windows 7 was a real pleasure to play with. i suppose i got bored... but anyway...
First i tried Ubuntu 10.4 and it was like ... wow :O turbo fast! but then some isues occored (like youtube troubles, flash player troubles, not being able to instal warcraft 3 TFT and so on) and the fact of being new and rather stupid i went back to windows 7 , only to reinstall Linux Mint 9 Isadora 3 days later. I told myself that this is exacly what i wanted... a little bit of challange. So now i have LM9 (wich as i heard is just like Ubuntu 10.4 only customized to be more user frendly - and it is true) and i found out about software manager and my Linux experience got better and better. Right now i've learned how to add screenlets to desktop (the Linux version of windows gadgets) and this a real releef since i pretty much adore them.
Today i've discovered by myself how to add actions to the right-click menu using Nautilus. I've got a head-start by finding out about Nautilus right here on this forum, but no one could explain how to actualy do it. After i got it, i went to the topic ("Gnome right-click menu") and posted a step-by-step tutorial.
My question is related to that topic actualy...
As a windows user i got used to right-click the desktop and press Refresh... is addictive, trust me... and not being able to do that in LM9 is frustrating... i find myself involuntarely pressing right-click and stare at the menu trying to find the Refresh line. Today i've even created a line in right-click menu that does nothing but is named Refresh and even has the reload icon besides... this gives a small confort.
But this is not enaugh. I would like to find out if there is any way to assing to this line the CTRL+R command. Tried and tried but no result.
PLS HELP ME !!!!!

[meton_magis]

I don't get it, what does it do? I've used windows for quite some time (since 3.1) but have never had to refresh my desktop (unless you count rebooting ...) All files moved there or removed from the desktop are updated in almost real-time.

What does CTRL + R do that you want to accomplish?

[FreshFlesh]

here is what i mean...

1) in windows you can do this (the thing that gets in your brain and stays there to hunt you):

you are in windows.... you have your desktop... you right-click the desktop... select refresh from that menu that shows up... the whole desktop gets refreshed (icons disapear and reapear in a split of a second)

2) in ubuntu (or LM9 in my case) you don't have the refresh option (reload is how is called in linux) unless you are in a window (like Home, or downloads... something...) and in that window, in the navigation bar, you have the Reload button (two arrows circuling one another... the last button to the right). BUT if you press CTRL + R anywhere in linux (desktop, window, browser... whatever) the whole thing gets reloaded (exacly the same thing that happens when you press refresh in windows)


i did created a refresh option on the right click menu, but it does nothing, since i do not know what is the command for reload, so what i basecly did is FAKED a refresh button.

i would really like to show what i mean but i cant due to posts limitatios (what a silly rule) but you can contact me via email for a "with picture" explaining.

[Freston]

Not sure. Do you know you need it? Is there some example perhaps of some situation where you need to refresh the desktop? Perhaps a change that wasn't picked up, or such?

I ask, because I've not in years needed anything like that in Linux.

i would really like to show what i mean but i cant due to posts limitatios (what a silly rule) but you can contact me via email for a "with picture" explaining.

You can post the link here if you use spaces instead of dots.

[FreshFlesh]

Is not about needing it, in the sense of giving it a usefull role, but in a sense of "i got used to having it and now i miss it... alot"

here is the link, with spaces instead of dots and between simbols, of a picture of my desktop, taken with my phone, because printscreen does not work when the right-click menu pops-up

http : / / yfrog com / 1rimage0252lj

you can clearly see the refresh option that i created (among others like, Display proprietes, screenlets, screensaver an so on), but the command line for ---Refresh--- is " lol " ... literaly... " lol " ... so it does nothing at all.

i've tried to make the command xrefresh (found out about it while documenting about this issue) but is not what i need

try to press CTRL+R yourself, anywhere u like, and see what happens. thats what i need my refresh button to do

right now is not a matter of "it has a usefull function" but a matter of "i know i can do it, i know others tried to do it, so it must be done, i'll find a way... eventualy"

its so much fun discovering all this stuff

[FreshFlesh]

OH MY GOD !!!! THIS IS KILLING ME !!!

I really hope i find an answer quick or i will blow up X(

so... here is what i did... so any of you that might want to help me doesn't do it again and waste his time as i did with mine

- i've tried to simply write refresh at the command line -> does nothing

- i've tried to write CTRL+R at the command line, hoping it will assign the key combination to the command -> does nothing

- i've tried to find out, in the keyboard shortcuts, what is the command line that key combination -> no result

- i've tried to find out something about refresh in terminal, but all i got is xrefresh and another thing , both useless -> no result

- i've googled my A** for hours but there is nothing but questions about this and still no answers (pisses me off)

Now, for any of you that consider to post a reply telling me that i dont need refresh as i do in windows, well i know that. as i said before is a matter of discovering something new, something that no one has done before in linux, but it absolutly can be done, as a result of a fine tweak.

There is another thing that i have in mind, but i am much, much, much to inexperienced to do... If anyone there knows how to look in the registryes and discover how the Reload button was created for the windows that you open in linux, and get the command line, it is, by my opinion, the one that can finaly answer this puzzle.

i am now going to try diferent things, more research... hope to see an answer soon... i'm not leting this go just like that !!!!!

[FreshFlesh]

for those of you wodering, here is the reload button that i so much reffer to:

http : / / yfrog . com / 12image0253nj

so here it is: I want my ---Refresh--- from the previous picture to do what the Reload button from this picture does. I can't really explain it more clearly

[reed9]

Not sure what exactly CTRL+R command is doing, but in GNOME, nautilus handles drawing the desktop. This should work

nautilus -q

EDIT: I should add that just kills nautilus and it should automatically restart.

[FreshFlesh]

@ reed9

Dude u are actualy pretty close to what i want. It does the restart of the desktop.... but:

1) it is slower than actualy pressing CTRL+R or by pressing F5 (i found out that F5 does exacly what CTRL+R does, so u can lookk into that too);

2) it doesn't work the way it should in a window (it closes it instead of quickly reloading it)

I can feel we are in the right direction

THINK PEOPLE !!! :P

[FreshFlesh]

I have a new question related to this topic. How can i access an "action" of Ubuntu?
here is why:
when i was searching for a proper icon for my refresh button, i found it under :
usr/share/icons/gnome-colors-common/16x16/actions
so i figured that this specific icon is related to a task of Ubuntu (reload in my case) and all i must do is find a way to access it. this is the part where i need your help again
how do i do that ?