Re: nautilus surfaces
On Thu, 4 May 2006 15:00:31 -0400
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> > On Thu, 4 May 2006 11:13:13 -0400
> > hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:
> >
> > > I have this problem on bothe sarge and etch.
> > > I use icewm. I do not use nautilus or KDO or gnome.
> > > Every now and them some program seems to start up nautilus.
> > > It surfaces when I close my windows.
> > > Then the background has changed colour and there are a lot of
> > > icons scattered about the screen apparently at random.
> > > When I log out from the icewm menu, nothing happens -- I get the
> > > dialog box asking me if I really want to log out, and them I am
> > > left starting at the nautilus desktop with icewm control bar at
> > > the bottom. How am I supposed to shut nautilus down so that I can
> > > log out (or even just see my icewm background again? Presumably
> > > KDE would have power over it if I were running KDE, but I'm not.
> > >
> > > -- hendrik
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > The default behaviour of nautilus is to draw the desktop. You can
> > disable this by issuing the command
> >
> > gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop -t bool false
>
> Did that. Now we'll see if the problem goes away. Or rather, I'll
> hope I won't see the problem hasn't gone away.
>
> -- hendrik
>
>
Easy to test. Just launch nautilus from a terminal.
--
Liam
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