F22: nautilus will not allow desktop icons if using session type "Gnome on Wayland"

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 08:14:14 UTC 2015


On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 8:12 AM, Joachim Backes
<joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de> wrote:
> On 03/28/2015 08:07 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 07:34 +0100, Joachim Backes wrote:
>>>
>>> Changed my session type to "Gnome on Wayland". After relogging in, I
>>> see
>>> no more desktop icons. Killing nautilus and starting in a
>>> gnome-terminal, I see the following message:
>>>
>>>
>>> ** (nautilus:4636): Warning **: Desktop icons only supported on X11.
>>> Desktop not created.
>>>
>>> Will this mean that nautilus will not run completely on
>>> Gnome/Wayland?
>>
>>
>> Well, I mean, it means what it says. It can't display icons on
>> Wayland. I'm not sure what else you're asking?
>>
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Additionally, will this mean that nautilus will
> be never running under wayland?

Nautilus runs just fine under wayland.
It does not support drawing the desktop yet though.


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