This was annoying me quite a bit. So, after a bit of hunting, I found out that Xfce relies on FAM or Gamin to monitor files and update the desktop and the file manager views. By default, Gamin is installed on FreeBSD, but with support for kqueue and not the built-in Gamin poller. Compiling Gamin with support for the Gamin poller solves the refreshing problem.
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