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Lockheed

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Registered: 2010-03-16

Posts: 1,521

Nautilus as desktop manager

I installed nautilus to replace pcmanfm, but how do I enable it as desktop manager? I cannot find any such option there.

seal20

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Registered: 2010-02-13

Posts: 36

Re: Nautilus as desktop manager

It is a key in dconf I think. From terminal launch dconf-editor. Then in org.gnome.desktop.background check show desktop icons.

I cannot test it as I don't have any gnome install under the hand but I think my memory is good...

Wey

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Registered: 2011-04-22

Posts: 217

Re: Nautilus as desktop manager

seal is right, though, that only works out if your desktop environment / setup parses /etc/xdg/autostart

$ cat /etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Files
Exec=nautilus -n
AutostartCondition=GSettings org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons

Otherwise use the auto launch mechanism specific to your setup to start nautilus -n.

$ nautilus --help | grep \\--no-default-window
  -n, --no-default-window     Only create windows for explicitly specified URIs.