xfdesktop not loading or overrun by Gnome

[Ondrej Mihalyi]

My opinion was, that session manager (either it is xfce-session or gnome-session) recognizes some application types, e.g. normal, restart, configuration and some more, not important.
And nautilus, which is the 'daemon' responsible for gnome desktop icons and all, is of 'restart' type, what means that if you're running a session manager and kill nautilus, or stop it another way, it gets restarted.  Now to be sure, try 'ps ax | grep nautilus' before you save the session and find out if nautilus isn't still running.  If it is, then you have a little problem.  You have to go to the session manager settings, set application type of nautilus from restart to normal (i don't know how do you do this in xfce-session, I use gnome-session with XFCE) and then stop nautilus, either from session manager configuration window, or by killall nautilus.
Then try saving your session.

This hint is all about that you won't get rid of nautilus in an easy way of killall nautilus, because it allways gets restarted.

If that won't do, I won't help you more.

Good luck

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:25:01 -0500
"Paul M. Bucalo" <pmbuc at pmbservices.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 11:13, Ondrej Mihalyi wrote:
> > Just a guess:
> > 
> > nautilus is by default application that gets restarted by session manager
> > when killed or stop in session manager.  You have to turn it to normal 
> > application ins session manager instead of restart.  Maybe that's what 
> > happens, you stop nautilus and it's gets restarted.
> > 
> > No other idea
> > 
> > Ondrej
> 
> Hmmm...I'm not sure that I see where you are going. The fact that I
> can't get xfce-session to save my desktop whether I kill nautilus or not
> suggests to me that this isn't an XFce problem. Unfortunately, I haven't
> been successful in finding the call to load this daemon, nor is the
> wording I am using in Google to search for an answer bringing up
> anything useful.
> 
> This started when this alarm daemon was being loaded up. I haven't
> changed anything in Evo to account for this. All workstations use Evo in
> the same way and none of the others are loading this daemon. I can only
> assume the daemon is causing this since nothing else is making sense.
> I'm going to try Evolution list and see if anyone there sees it as
> 'their' problem.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Paul
> 
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