[Nottingham] Gnome(s) ate my Desktop

[mike]

On Thu, 2002-12-19 at 10:40, mike@redtux.demon.co.uk wrote:
> james.siddle@siemens.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Last night, I was trying to run 'GRip' to Rip a CD into MP3s. For some
> > reason when the app had started, a 'nautilus' desktop appeared and subsumed
> > my KDE desktop! Even worse than that, my session was saved when I logged out
> > so the nautilus desktop was loaded again every time I logged in!
> > 
> > I managed to track down the problem eventually to a file (hidden away in the
> > '.kde. directory) that contained my saved session, and I had to manually
> > change it to remove that offending lines, but I'm interested to know how on
> > earth this could happen in the first place . .  and has anyone else come
> > across strange behaviour like this?
> > 
> 
> Dont use KDE so hasn't happened to me, but I know why it has happened.
> 
> Because Grip is a gnome app, it needs to load some gnome programs when it launches. When this occurs nautilus starts up, because it is setup to "draw the desktop".
> 
> To avoid this happening, load nautilus, go into preferences, and uncheck the option "Use Nautilus to draw the desktop"

Also you need to turn off loading file-manager in gnome-cd-properties

> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
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