You might try gconf-editor (emerge it if you haven't got it already), and edit the preferences. I'm not a 100% sure it's the right option to change, but you might have look at: apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (unselect it).
--If it isn't the right option, search for another, better suitable one. :)
h: Kristian
Rick Hennigan wrote:Hello all, I recently decided to try out Xfce and it was working great. Today however, I tried upgrading to 4.2 and now when I start my xfce session, nautilus and its desktop automatically start as well. How can I keep nautilus from starting when I run xfce?
I'd say you're on the right track, Kristian, but I have a couple of extra questions for Rick or any XFCE user who might know:
What this sounds like is that:
1) XFCE has some kind of session saving that reopens the programs that were open when you closed the last session. Is this the case? I haven't used XFCE in a while so I don't remember. This sounds much more like the behaviour of gnome-session, actually-- but afaik, there is no reason that gnome-session should be running in this case (is there? Is the GNOME integration of XFCE so 'complete' that it uses gnome-session now?);
2) Nautilus is set to "show desktop" as Kristian said, so when Nautilus opens, it puts the GNOME desktop up as well, which is admittedly annoying if you're using Nautilus under some other WM.
What I would do is first of all what Kristian said, and edit gconf2 so that the desktop doesn't come up when you open Nautilus. Be aware that this will also affect GNOME if you use it; you will have to change the setting back or find an alternative to display desktop wallpaper and/or icons, because GNOME expects Nautilus to do this.
What I would then do (if you still care that Nautilus is opening on startup, even without the GNOME desktop), is try to find what Autostart functionality is available to XFCE (startup script, session saving, autostart folder) and see if Nautilus is listed there, and remove it.
HTH, Holly
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