When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely. However if I start nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by clicking on the background. What's it doing and how can I get my fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the mouse-click menus)?
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely. However if I start nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by clicking on the background. What's it doing and how can I get my fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the mouse-click menus)?
You might want to play with gconf-editor and turn off the options for using Nautilus to draw the desktop:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (it's a boolean tickbox)
That's the path with the gconf editor, not a file path.
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:26:26 +1030 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely. However if I start nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by clicking on the background. What's it doing and how can I get my fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the mouse-click menus)?
You might want to play with gconf-editor and turn off the options for using Nautilus to draw the desktop:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (it's a boolean tickbox)
That's the path with the gconf editor, not a file path.
Run nautilus like this
nautilus --no-destkop --browser and nautilus will not take over your desktop
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 01:26:26PM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely. However if I start nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by clicking on the background. What's it doing and how can I get my fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the mouse-click menus)?
You might want to play with gconf-editor and turn off the options for using Nautilus to draw the desktop:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (it's a boolean tickbox)
That's the path with the gconf editor, not a file path.
So where do I find (or how do I run) gconf-editor?
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:01:55AM -0600, lostson wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:26:26 +1030 Tim ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely. However if I start nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by clicking on the background. What's it doing and how can I get my fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the mouse-click menus)?
You might want to play with gconf-editor and turn off the options for using Nautilus to draw the desktop:
/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (it's a boolean tickbox)
That's the path with the gconf editor, not a file path.
Run nautilus like this
nautilus --no-destkop --browser and nautilus will not take over your desktop
Excellent, thank you! :-)
Where does one find things like this documented? It's one of the reasons that at least a basic man page for *every* command is useful, a man page lists the command line parameters if nothing else.
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:36 +0000, Chris G wrote:
So where do I find (or how do I run) gconf-editor?
That's the command line name for it. If installed, that'll run it. If not, yum install it. It sets things per user, run it as yourself (not as root, as that'd only affect the root user's settings).
It shows up in the Gnome menus under "system tools" as "configuration editor."
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 01:19:04AM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 13:36 +0000, Chris G wrote:
So where do I find (or how do I run) gconf-editor?
That's the command line name for it. If installed, that'll run it. If not, yum install it. It sets things per user, run it as yourself (not as root, as that'd only affect the root user's settings).
OK, thank you, it's not installed on my system (not installed by default I presume). I'll install it.
It shows up in the Gnome menus under "system tools" as "configuration editor."
Except that since I run fvwm2 I don't have any gnome menus, however I have learnt that running gnome-panel shows me all those wonders! :-)
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 14:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
since I run fvwm2 I don't have any gnome menus
It can still be useful to have the gconf-editor (a Gnome configuration editor), since it seems that there's a plethora of things configured from the .gconf files, even if you don't use Gnome.
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 02:24:12PM +1030, Tim wrote:
On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 14:54 +0000, Chris G wrote:
since I run fvwm2 I don't have any gnome menus
It can still be useful to have the gconf-editor (a Gnome configuration editor), since it seems that there's a plethora of things configured from the .gconf files, even if you don't use Gnome.
Yes, I have a sort of short-list of things like this on one of my fvwm2 menus, I'll add gconf-editor.