On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:40 -0800, Gregory Margo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use the Gnome desktop w/sawfish under LM 8.1. For the first few days I was
> really annoyed at Nautilus because it would bring up a new filesystem
> browser everytime I inserted a CDROM. I was installing packages so
> it was happening quite frequently. (And frankly Nautilus seems like
> incredibly slow bloatware to me.)
>
> I could not figure out how to tell Nautilus to not "autorun." I don't use
> "autorun" under Windows and don't want to use it under Linux either.
>
> Then one day, Nautilus simply quit showing up. I have no idea why,
> although I was delighted because it made the "autorun" problem go away.
> However, now I have no icons on the desktop. I don't really care about
> that either since I never used those icons for anything.
>
> So Nautilus is obviously not necessary for running Gnome.
> How do I remove it? Rpm reports that the nautilus package provides
> the "gnome-desktop" capabilty, which is required by the gnome-core
> package.
>
> Is it improper for gnome-core to depend on Nautilus?
> Can Nautilus be deleted?
> Can Nautilus be instructed how to behave?
> Can Nautilus be brought back from the dead?
>
> thanks in advance,
> gm
A great thing about GNOME is its flexibility. For example, you can have either
GMC or Nautilus to manage your desktop, or you can choose to have neither.
Nautilus is still very much a work in progress, and at present it is quite slow
and heavy. Nautilus 1.0.5 is a little faster than the 1.0.4 included in
Mandrake. Disabling it, as you have inadvertantly done, is the best way to speed
up GNOME. There is an option in the Preferences to tell it to manage your
desktop (you need to be in Advanced mode) or not. You can then use Nautilus as a
standalone file manager. Now, you can either have GMC (which is much faster)
managing your desktop or nothing at all.
To remove Nautilus entirely, you need to uninstall the nautilus,
nautilus-mozilla and the nautilus-devel (if present) packages. However, I would
advise against it since it is a major part of GNOME.
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