--- rtgui/dirbrowser.cc.orig	2015-08-11 19:57:03.809587000 +0200
+++ rtgui/dirbrowser.cc	2015-08-11 20:16:28.320220000 +0200
@@ -223,9 +223,14 @@
   Glib::RefPtr<WinDirMonitor> monitor = Glib::RefPtr<WinDirMonitor>(new WinDirMonitor (iter->get_value (dtColumns.dirname), this));
   iter->set_value (dtColumns.monitor, monitor);
 #else
-  Glib::RefPtr<Gio::FileMonitor> monitor = dir->monitor_directory ();
-  iter->set_value (dtColumns.monitor, monitor);
-  monitor->signal_changed().connect (sigc::bind(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &DirBrowser::file_changed), iter, dir->get_parse_name()));
+  Glib::RefPtr<Gio::FileMonitor> monitor;
+  try {
+      monitor = dir->monitor_directory ();
+      iter->set_value (dtColumns.monitor, monitor);
+      monitor->signal_changed().connect (sigc::bind(sigc::mem_fun(*this, &DirBrowser::file_changed), iter, dir->get_parse_name()));
+  } catch (Glib::Error &err) {
+      fprintf (stderr, "cannot create directory monitor: %s\n", err.what().c_str());
+  }
 #endif
 }