On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 15:00, Stuart Jansen wrote: > One of my co-workers uses Windows with Hummingbird. When he connects to > a Solaris machine and starts an Xsession he can have a transparent > background so that he gets an entire desktop with CDE and mix it with > his Windows desktop. He moves his Start bar to the left of the screen > and rearranges icons so they don't conflict. As a result, CDE and > Windows work together and when he clicks on something the appropriate > desktop responds. > > He's now trying to do the same with Linux, specifically RH 8. Is this > possible and if so, how?
Probably. What you'll need to do is make sure Nautilus does not draw the desktop. Nautilus draws on a window just above the root window, so it will cover all the win32 icons and the windows desktop. The downside to disabling nautilus' drawing of the desktop is that you won't get any icons at all from it. To disable nautilus drawing the background, go to edit->preferences, select desktop&trash, and unselect "Use Nautilus to draw the desktop" Michael -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
