Before Nauiltus came along, GMC controlled the GNOME desktop. Perhaps you can
turn off GMC's control of the desktop in GMC's settings.
On Thu, 9 Aug 2001 02:51, paul rodríguez wrote:
> I'm so sorry. I appear to have been careless and premature. Nope,, not
> resolved. Whereas Gnome can now set the background (it couldn't
> before), I still get two sets of icons overlapping each other, one with
> pretty pictures, the other with default, no icon to display ugly ones).
> Anybody know what is going on, is this gnome/sawfish and nautilus both
> doing there job at the same time or something else.
>
> Soryy to bother, thanks for the help, everyone!
>
> -Paul Rodríguez
>
> On 08 Aug 2001 12:42:37 -0400, paul rodríguez wrote:
> > The preferences are set to "advanced" but there is still no option in my
> > Nautilus preferences to stop managing the desktop.
> >
> > But I did find a work-arround! Yes! I went to /home/user/.nautilus and
> > deleted the file called "first-time-flag" this is a file which let
> > Nautilus know that the program had been executed before. The next time
> > I opened Nautilus, it gave me the startup dialog again. Yay!
> >
> > Thanks, everyone!
> >
> > -Paul Rodríguez
> >
> > On 08 Aug 2001 10:49:03 -0400, Charles A. Punch wrote:
> > > I had a little problem understanding the instructions posted to the
> > > list, until I realized that you must change the preferences to
> > > "advanced" and then click preferances. The advanced option is the
> > > "triangle" that one post spoke of.
> > >
> > > ShalomOut
> > > Chal
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> > >
> > > paul rodríguez wrote:
> > > > Please forgive me if you recieved multiple copies of this email
> > > > accidentally.
> > > >
> > > > I have been looking for a way to disable Nautilus as my desktop
> > > > manager. Everyone has been telling me that it is in the Nautilus
> > > > preferences (which I thought as well), but it doesn't seem to be in
> > > > the preferences in my version (1.0.3-3mdk) from Mandrake Freq2. I am
> > > > currently using gnome with sawfish and would like more control of my
> > > > desktop environment through these applications.
> > > >
> > > > -Paul Rodríguez
> > > >
> > > > On 07 Aug 2001 11:02:48 -0300, Nicolás Gómez wrote:
> > > >> open the nautilus browser.... in the last menu from left to
> > > >> right.... (is a drawing like a diamond) then... go to preferences
> > > >> and disable the option "Choose Nautilus to draw my desktop"... or
> > > >> something like that
> > > >>
> > > >> ----- Original Message -----
> > > >> From: "Sridhar Dhanapalan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> To: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > >> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:53 AM
> > > >> Subject: Re: [newbie] nautilus as desktop manager
> > > >>
> > > >>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 03:23, Paul wrote:
> > > >>>> It was Tue, 7 Aug 2001 17:40:40 +1000 when Sridhar Dhanapalan
wrote:
> > > >>>>> I haven't used Nautilus in a while, but I vaguely recall an
> > > >>>>> option for this existing in Nautilus' preferences.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> I recall it is nautilus --nodesktop.
> > > >>>> Just tried it: that's it.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> Paul
> > > >>>
> > > >>> The problem here is that when you start GNOME, Nautilus will load
> > > >>> automatically to manage the desktop. There is no opportunity to
> > > >>> enter the --nodesktop flag. The flag will only work if Nautilus is
> > > >>> not already
> > > >>
> > > >> loaded
> > > >>
> > > >>> (and hence not managing the desktop). To control how Nautilus
> > > >>> behaves at GNOME startup, you need to change the preferences
> > > >>> setting.
> > > >>>
> > > >>>>> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001 11:50, paul rodrguez wrote:
> > > >>>>>> I chose to have nautilus run as my desktop manager during the
> > > >>>>>> initial setup of my LM 8 freq2 gnome system. Now it seems
> > > >>>>>> neither gnome nor nautilus are fully in control of my desktop,
> > > >>>>>> the icons appear as
> > > >>
> > > >> blank
> > > >>
> > > >>>>>> files and i can't change the background image. I would like to
> > > >>>>>> take
> > > >>
> > > >> off
> > > >>
> > > >>>>>> nautilus' control of the desktop, how can I set this?
> > > >>>>>
> > > >>>>> --
> > > >>>>> Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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