On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 07:01:55AM -0600, lostson wrote: > On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:26:26 +1030 > Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > > Run nautilus like this > > nautilus --no-destkop --browser and nautilus will not take over your desktop > Excellent, thank you! :-) Where does one find things like this documented? It's one of the reasons that at least a basic man page for *every* command is useful, a man page lists the command line parameters if nothing else. -- Chris Green -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list