Re: Odd behaviour?

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?

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".

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