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Question about Nautilus

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MGMorden

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I've been playing around with Gnome a good bit lately (just the version Slack 8 came with). I don't know if this is normal but I don't get any desktop icons (or the ability to add them) unless I start Nautilus. After I do that a file manager window pops up and the desktop icons appear. I can close the window and the desktop stays though. The problem here is that every time I open Gnome I get this Nautilus window. Is there any way to start the desktop management part of Nautilus without opening an initial window?
 
in a Naut window, select the far right pull down menu and the bottom option should be "configure" (or the like). in one of the tabs there is an option "use Nautilus to draw the desktop". make sure this is selected.

hope this helps
stafford
staffordvaughan@bigpond.com
 
That is a good tip, but not quite what I'm looking for. I want a way to bring up Nautilus's desktop managing portion WITHOUT opening a window (maybe a commandline switch?). Another program or something to add desktop icons would be nice too. I just need something to work with 🙂.
 
maybe i misunderstand, but this should manage the desktop and add nautilus's icons with the new boot of linux. you shouldn't have to open a Naut window for it to work. if you do there is probably a problem. i am not an expert on Naut i've just mucked around with it a bit.

my other suggestion is to message one of the nautilus lists. i used to subscribe to this list and the people always know what they are talking about. try that and good luck.

stafford
 
Yeah there must be a problem. That switch is on but I always have to start Nautilus manually before any of the desktop icons will show. There doesn't seem to be any alternative way to have desktop icons either. I'm downloading Nautilus 1.0.4 (have 1.0.3 now) to see if that fixes anything. Even if not the changelog says this version is faster so that's at least something.
 
I'm running nautilus at home and on a crashbox here at work and that's how I have it setup, to "use nautilus to draw the desktop", it starts automatically without opening the window, so I know it's possible, the Mandrake 8 install did this nicely for me.
If you cant figure out how to have it happen you could always set it to load nautilus when you login to gnome and than just close that window...
 
I already have Gnome setup to load Nautilus autmatically, but I hate closing the window at startup. Besides a setup like that just feels kludgy to me and I'd rather spend the time researching it and set it up "the right way".
 
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