On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:17:01 -0800, Gregory Margo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 04:45:41AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:12:40 -0800, Gregory Margo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:> I use the Gnome desktop w/sawfish under LM 8.1. For the first few
> > days I was> really annoyed at Nautilus because it would bring up a new
> > filesystem> browser everytime I inserted a CDROM. I was installing packages
> > so> it was happening quite frequently. (And frankly Nautilus seems like
> > > incredibly slow bloatware to me.)
> > >
> > > I could not figure out how to tell Nautilus to not "autorun." I don't use
> > > "autorun" under Windows and don't want to use it under Linux either.
> > >
> > > Then one day, Nautilus simply quit showing up. I have no idea why,
> > > although I was delighted because it made the "autorun" problem go away.
> > > However, now I have no icons on the desktop. I don't really care about
> > > that either since I never used those icons for anything.
> > >
> > > So Nautilus is obviously not necessary for running Gnome.
> > > How do I remove it? Rpm reports that the nautilus package provides
> > > the "gnome-desktop" capabilty, which is required by the gnome-core
> > > package.
> > >
> > > Is it improper for gnome-core to depend on Nautilus?
> > > Can Nautilus be deleted?
> > > Can Nautilus be instructed how to behave?
> > > Can Nautilus be brought back from the dead?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance,
> > > gm
> >
> > A great thing about GNOME is its flexibility. For example, you can have
> > either GMC or Nautilus to manage your desktop, or you can choose to have
> > neither. Nautilus is still very much a work in progress, and at present it
> > is quite slow and heavy. Nautilus 1.0.5 is a little faster than the 1.0.4
> > included in Mandrake. Disabling it, as you have inadvertantly done, is the
> > best way to speed up GNOME. There is an option in the Preferences to tell it
> > to manage your desktop (you need to be in Advanced mode) or not. You can
> > then use Nautilus as a standalone file manager. Now, you can either have GMC
> > (which is much faster) managing your desktop or nothing at all.
> >
> > To remove Nautilus entirely, you need to uninstall the nautilus,
> > nautilus-mozilla and the nautilus-devel (if present) packages. However, I
> > would advise against it since it is a major part of GNOME.
> >
> > --
> > Sridhar Dhanapalan
> >
> > "I did this 'cause Linux gives me a woody."
> > -- Dave '-ddt->' Taylor, announcing DOOM for Linux
>
> Where is this Advanced Preferences menu to let me configure what program
> handles the desktop?
There should be a picture of a black diamond along the top of your Nautilus
window. Click it and you'll be in Advanced mode.
> Now I've managed to get gmc configured as the desktop, but that's not
> working right either. I can't kill it (it keeps restarting.) And clicking
> on a desktop link just brings up an "open with" dialog.
The GNOME Session Manager is set to restart gmc in case it crashes or is killed.
Go to a terminal and type "session-properties" (this is also available from the
GNOME Control Centre). Look for gmc and change the Style (the drop-down box
along the top of the window) to "Trash". Now you can kill gmc. Once gmc has been
killed, you won't have anything managing your desktop, which can bring a speed
boost on some systems. To save your GNOME session like that, either exit GNOME
and check the "Save current setup" option, or type "save-session" in a terminal
window.
> thanks,
> gm
--
Sridhar Dhanapalan
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