GVFS is the virtual filesystem for the GNOME desktop, which allows users easy access to remote and local data via a variety of protocols, and maintains file metadata.
Questions tagged [gvfs]
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How to change GVFS mount point?
There is a way to change the GVFS mount point which by default is "~/.gvfs/" ?
And by the way how to change the name of mounted folders which by default is "my folder on myserver.tld" ?
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what to do with "gvfs-backends"?
I recently updated my Ubuntu-mate 18.4 to 20.4.
A few days later, when Ubuntu was started, a warning appeared indicating that it should install "gvfs-backends", but, when pressing "install", a warning appears indicating that this software can cause…
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gvfs is not mounting my Google Pixel
I'm running Ubuntu 17.04 on a Macbook. I'm running Gnome. GVFS does not seem to be mounting my Pixel phone anymore. Per syslog, USB seems to be seeing the phone and identifying it properly, but it doesn't show up in nautilus or under…
Hugh Caley
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Gvfs permissions denied in syslog
My syslog is generating this the following two lines every second.
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ct 19 06:27:09 wally org.gnome.panel.applet.MultiLoadAppletFactory[1911]: glibtop: statvfs '/root/.gvfs' failed: Permission denied
Oct 19 06:27:09 wally…
Walter
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gvfsd-dav process
What is the process gvfsd-dav. The best I could find on my system monitor was that it is somehow associated to nautilus. I closed all the nautilus instances and still there are 2 instances of gvfsd-dav that are completely occupying 2 out of 4 CPUs.
Lelouch Lamperouge
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gedit admin:// timeout
Whenever I do some administration on my home server, I will have a terminal open running commands with sudo and modifying files with gedit admin:// &!
Since it always take me more than 5 minutes to get everything done, I found annoying…
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/run/user/1000/gvfs Permission Denied
# ls -l /run/user/1000
Gives the following:
drwx------ 2 mtc mtc 60 feb 5 20:50 at-spi
srw-rw-rw- 1 mtc mtc 0 feb 5 20:50 bus
drwx------ 3 mtc mtc 60 feb 5 20:50 dbus-1
drwx------ 2 mtc mtc 60 feb 5 20:50 dconf
d????????? ? ? ? ? …
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GVFs metadata is not supported
I tried changing the lock screen on my newly installed ubuntu. I tried the following to modify the theme
$ sudo gedit /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/ubuntu.css
When the text editor opened, it was blank and the terminal displayed this warning.enter…
