Desktop Icons

[Jim Summers]

Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Jim Summers wrote:
>> It opened nautilus.  Then I 
>> right-clicked on the desktop and now I do not have a xfce mgr, it seems to be 
>> nautilus.  Then using ps and kill I got rid of the nautilus process, but then 
>> all of the desktop icons are gone.  Tried to -HUP the xfce-mcs-manager process 
>> but that has yielded no joy.
>>
>> Ideas??
>>   
> 
> Yeah. I'm afraid nautilus is not behaving very nicely in its default 
> settings (IMHO) and tries to take over the desktop when you don't use a 
> command line option or change the settings. Unfortunately, when doing 
> this xfdesktop is killed (I don't think we really know why this happens).
> 
> In short, to get your icons back, press Alt-F2 and run xfdesktop. That 
> should do the trick.
> 
>     Jasper

Many Thanks.

Now back to solve the desktop icons thing.  I am also using beryl.

TIA

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Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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