On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:17:01 -0800, Gregory Margo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:45:41AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
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.
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody.
-- Dave '-ddt-' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
Where is this Advanced Preferences menu to let me configure what program
handles the desktop?
There should be a picture of a black diamond along the top of your Nautilus
window. Click it and you'll be in Advanced mode.
Now I've managed to get gmc configured as the desktop, but that's not
working right either. I can't kill it (it keeps restarting.) And clicking
on a desktop link just brings up an open with dialog.
The GNOME Session Manager is set to restart gmc in case it crashes or is killed.
Go to a terminal and type session-properties (this is also available from the
GNOME Control Centre). Look for gmc and change the Style (the drop-down box
along the top of the window) to Trash. Now you can kill gmc. Once gmc has been
killed, you won't have anything managing your desktop, which can bring a speed
boost on some systems. To save your GNOME session like that, either exit GNOME
and check the Save current setup option, or type save-session in a terminal
window.
thanks,
gm
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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