On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, 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?
Somebody replied saying his wife had the same problem but never found a
solution. I lost that message (sorry). But a partial answer is: invoke
nautilus as "nautilus --no-desktop". That's clunky and I haven't yet found
a pref file. If I have to I'll write an alias to do it.
Solutions for the other half of the problem are: turn on "save on exit" (I
think mine is, but I'll check to be sure) and make sure ~/.gnome2 and
everything in it is readable and writable by you (in fact everything's
eben.eben and u+rw).
--
-eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
Two atoms are walking along. Suddenly, one
stops. The other says, "What's wrong?" "I've lost
an electron." "Are you sure?" "I'm positive!"
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This list is provided as an unmoderated internet service by Networked
Knowledge Systems (NKS). Views and opinions expressed in messages
posted are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the
official policy or position of NKS or any of its employees.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.3 : Fri Aug 01 2014 - 16:54:52 EDT