Re: [SLUG] xfce and desktop control

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Fri Sep 12 2008 - 10:00:32 EDT


On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 03:16:02AM -0400, Eben King wrote:

> Every time I restart X on the laptop (WM xfce), I have to go into Settings
> -> Desktop Settings and re-check "Allow Xfce to manage the desktop". It
> also gets unchecked when I run nautilus, I've found. (In both cases I can
> tell immediately since the background changes to an image that might have
> been set by some Gnome tool I can't run since I'm not running Gnome.) Any
> idea what causes this annoying behavior, and how I can stop it?
>

My wife just ran into this as well. We search around forever to finally
discover this setting. Why it got changed and how, I don't know. So I'd
be curious as well.

Paul

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Paul M. Foster
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