<quote who="Daniele Venzano"> > I want different backgrounds on different desktops, I think that's a > simple feature, but the only window manager that manage this is the old > enlightentment 0.16. > For this reason I don't want nautilus to draw my desktop, and I have to > go digging in gconf for the settings I need (that, BTW, are not > documented, or perhaps I didn't search in the right places).
Disabling Nautilus is not the way to fix this properly - bringing support for per-desktop backgrounds to GNOME is. > Still, I haven't found any way to let nautilus draw the icons on the > desktop, but not the background image. You can't. Nautilus draws a window on top of the root window. That's the only sane way to get desktop file management working. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2004: Adelaide, Australia http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ What do you give a bird when it has a headache? Parakeetamol.

