sudden appearance of gnome-like icons on desktop

[joe_schmoe]

Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On 10/25/05, joe_schmoe <geek_show at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 
>>Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, joe_schmoe wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi
>>>>
>>>>I must have made a mouse error, but suddenly I lost my desktop wallpaper
>>>>and three gnome-like icons appeared on my desktop. I've changed my
>>>>wallpaper, but the icons for my home, my computer and trash remain. What
>>>>do I need to reset?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>killall xffm-deskview
>>>
>>>Then use xfce-setting show to set the environment variable for
>>>filemanager:
>>>
>>>DISABLE_DESKTOP = yes
>>>
>>>If you dont use mcs-manager, you can set environment variable in the usual
>>>way before executing xffm 4.3.3
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>
>>Cheers Edscott
>>
>>Slight problem - I am running xfce4.0.5. Sorry, should have mentioned
>>that in my first post.
>>
>>When I call up the .xfce4/xffm/xffmrc.xml file, this is what I see:
>>
>>
>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>><xffm>
>>   <CONFIG_VERSION>0.6</CONFIG_VERSION>
>>   <preferences AUTOSCROLL="1073741824" DRAG_DO_COPY="1048576"
>>SHOW_DOT="0" FILETYPE_SUBS="268435456" IMAGE_PREVIEW="33554432"
>>ENABLE_MONITOR="0" ENABLE_AUTO_T="0" HIDE_WASTE_B="0" RSH_X_SSH="0"
>>RSYNC_X_SCP="0" SHOW_MM="32" SHOW_TB1="64" SHOW_TB2="128" SHOW_F="0"
>>SHOW_TITLES="0" SHOW_SIZE="0" SHOW_DATE="0" SHOW_UID="0" SHOW_GID="0"
>>SHOW_MODE="0"/>
>>   <options icon_size="2" theme="gnome"/>
>>   <geometry width="695" height="409" hpane="1"/>
>></xffm>
>>
>>It would appear that somewhere here there must be a way to disallow
>>desktop icons, but which would serve that purpose?
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>/j
>>
> 
> 
> Well, xffm in 4.0.5 couldn't place icons on your desktop. Nautilus has
> hijacked your desktop. Kill it and restart xfdesktop. Make sure to
> save your session the next time you log out.
> 
> Regards, Alexander Toresson
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Thanks Alexander - that worked. Any ideas why Nautilus would have 
started up like that?

Cheers

/j