On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Markus Seeber wrote: > On 08/08/2015 12:50 PM, Quolick wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Sorry in advance for being lame. > > I use dwm 6.0 in Ubuntu 14, where the default WM is Gnome. > > And when some X program opened Gnome "explorer" in some directory, > > everything disappears. > > I can switch to other workspaces using Alt-1, etc, but when I switch to the > > current one again, there is nothing. > > Is it known bug? > > > > > > > > "explorer" is probably "nemo" in your case. Nemo has on gnome also the > responsibility to handle the desktop-background e.g. placing icons on > your desktop. In dwm this causes a new window to be created that is > empty -> your description of "everything disappears". > > When running "nemo --no-desktop" this does not happen. This is not a bug > in dwm but caused by some kind of strange design in nemo/gnome.
It was Nautilus in my case. Not sure if anyone interesting, but this is helped me: $ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false Now Nautilus doesn't manage desktop, this is equivalent to "--no-desktop" switch. Thanks a lot!
