RE: Rootless mode with Query mode

[Jean-Claude Gervais <jc dot gervais at videotron dot ca>]

Staf,

	Right on!

	I booted Nautilus, set the preference to advanced, then selected EDIT
PREFERENCES, and unselected "Use Nautilus to draw desktop"

	And that did the trick.

	However, I find it strange that the Gnome Configuration panel, which also
has a Desktop section, doesn't have this option... Oh well.

	Now if I could only figure out how to do that with KDE, I'd be set.

Thanks again, Staf.

Jean-Claude


-----Original Message-----
From: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com]On
Behalf Of Staf Verhaegen
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2002 10:13 AM
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Rootless mode with Query mode

Jean-Claude Gervais wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>         If I start XWin with the following parameters, :0 -rootless -query
hostname
>
>         I get the Redhat login dialog box, which appears with NO
background.
>
>         This is good.
>
>         Then when I log in, whether I select GNOME or KDE, the KDE/GNOME
desktop
> background always appears.
>
>         Is there a way to prevent this?
>
>         I'd like to have the Gnome or KDE taskbar and start menu, but not
a desktop
> like it does.
>
>         And even if I configure KDE/GNOME to have NO desktop, they both
still want
> to at least draw a color background.

I'm not familiar with KDE but for gnome the file manager (nautilus) is also
resposible for drawing the desktop icons and these are drawn in a full size
window. I think you can disable that somewhere in the nautilus preferences.
I
suppose the KDE file manager has the same behaviour.

Staf.

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