Re: Running nautilus hijacks my window manager

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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 23:24 +0000, Chris G wrote:
> When I run nautilus it does something diabolical to my window manager!
> 
> I run fvwm2 as my window manager and it's lovely.  However if I start
> nautilus it clobbers everything, the background colour changes
> slightly, but more to the point I can no longer get my mouse menus by
> clicking on the background.  What's it doing and how can I get my
> fvwm2 back apart from by shutting down and restarting (which in itself
> is quite difficult because I normally do that via one of the
> mouse-click menus)? 

You might want to play with gconf-editor and turn off the options for
using Nautilus to draw the desktop:

/apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (it's a boolean tickbox)

That's the path with the gconf editor, not a file path.

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