Can't get rid of Gnome Desktop

Robin Haswell rob at digital-crocus.com
Thu Mar 2 20:13:08 CET 2006


Looks fine to me :-)

sofar wrote:
> I just did my work and changed the FAQ entry to:
> 
> 
> + My desktop or desktop menu has disappeared!?
> 
> It appears that xfdesktop is no longer in control of the desktop. Often
> xfdesktop has died, or some other program took over the desktop. Make
> sure that xfdesktop is still running first. Nautilus takes over the
> desktop by default too. Please start nautilus with the --no-desktop
> flag, or use gconf-editor and unset the flag that tells nautilus to
> handle the desktop (/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop). Start
> xfdesktop again and you should be OK again.
> 
> 
> Now, if this is NOT correct, then please tell me. 
> 
> Auke
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:07:27 +0000, sofar <sofar at foo-projects.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:57:35 +0000, Robin Haswell <rob at digital-crocus.com>
>> wrote:
>>> sofar wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:43:00 -0500, "Andrew Conkling"
>>> <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> no, the FAQ clearly reads:
>>>>
>>>> "or use gconfig-editor and unset the flag that tells nautilus to handle
>>> the desktop."
>>>> That clearly states that you can tell nautilus not to manage the
>>> desktop, and how.
>>>
>>> I dispute that. Not only does it not state which flag to unset, it even
>>> gives the wrong command. At least on my system, it's "gconf-editor".
>>
>> Then you should have told me that there was a typo, and which flag to
>> unset
>> so that I can fix the FAQ. This is called collaboration.
>>
>>
>> Auke
>>
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