I'm just trying RHL8.0 for the first time today. I'm a kind of easy
going guy: I usually accept whatever GUI Red Hat nominates (since
RHL4.x, if I remember correctly). Then I fiddle with it a bit.
Perhaps superstitiously, I feel that Nautilus weighs down a system.
So I like to eliminate it from the startup. In particular, I don't
need the three icons on the desktop: Hugh's Home, Start Here, and
Trash, each run by Nautilus. I'm guessing that Nautilus would then
only appear when summoned (rarely, in my case).
Attempt 1: I deleted the files with these names from
~/.gnome-desktop/. This (or something else I did at the same time)
caused the menubar to become unstable, so I tried to undo the damage.
Undoing the damage:
shut down X
rm -rf ~/.[a-zA-Z]*
cp -a /etc/skel ~
restart X
Attempt 2: search for a way to use the GUI to get rid of these desktop
artifacts.
- right click on them yields no affordance
- right click on desktop ditto
- right click on panel only deals with panel
- only menu item that seems relevant: gnome menu: preferences: control
center
+ interestingly, this is run by the nemesis (Nemo?), Nautilus.
+ the only likely item here is "extras", and within that "sawfish
window manager" (I did look at everything else)
+ every button in "sawfish window manager" is useless. The only
action I can get out of them is a BEEP. Good diagnostic!
I notice on the text console (by using C-A-F1):
error: can't connect to socket /tmp/.sawfish-hugh/redsky.mimosa.com:0:0
+ I don't even know if I'm running sawfish. How am I (a dumb user)
supposed to know? (It doesn't show up with ps. I'm guessing
metacity is doing that job. No man page for it.)
Where am I supposed to control what's on the desktop? Where am I
supposed to find this out?
Help, I'm drowning in GUI.
Hugh Redelmeier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] voice: +1 416 482-8253
