Stopping nautilus managing the desktop

[David Holden]

Thanks this did the trick. The downside of course is I can't now drag links
to the desktop but you can't have everything I suppose.

   Thanks for your help

        Dave.


On 24/12/06, Vincent Trouilliez <vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
>
> "David Holden" <dvdhldn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > but the desktop still seems to be managed by nautilus.
> > Anyone know if its possible to change this?
>
> Yes.
> First, you must stop Nautilus from starting when you log on:
>
> - Go to System->Preferences->Sessions
>
> - Click on "automatically save on log-out", so it remembers NOT to load
> Nautilus ext time you log-in
>
> - Select the "current session" tab
>
> - scroll down the list to find Nautilus, and select it
>
> - click on "remove"
>
> - log out and log in again, Nautilus should now not manage your desktop
> (since it's not loaded anymore)
>
>
> Then if you still want to start Nautilus (although I understand that's
> not your goal here ;-), start it with like this:
>
> nautilus --no-desktop
>
> this will prevent Nautilus from attempting to regain control of the
> desktop.
>
> HTH
>
>
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