nautilus the graffiti artist

ms devicerandom at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 19:07:02 UTC 2010


On 10/08/10 15:21, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I have a server running lucid that I mostly manage over an ssh session
> from my desktop machine. I need to write a CD using the burner on the
> server and as an experiment I thought I'd use Nautilus. So I installed
> it but when I started it, it changed the colour of the root window on my
>   desktop machine.
>
> That seems pretty rude! What right does Nautilus think it has to my
> [non-gnome] desktop properties? Have I missed some setting?
>
> Cheers, Dave
>

I think that Nautilus manages the desktop by default (yes, it's dead 
annoying).

Google, luckly, finds very rapidly an answer:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/137914-disable-nautilus-desktop-handling/

cheers,
m.




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