Running nautilus hijacks my window manager

lostson lostson at lostsonsvault.org
Thu Nov 8 13:01:55 UTC 2007


On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:26:26 +1030
Tim <ignored_mailbox at 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


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lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org>
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