REinstalling gmc background icons. How? (Re: Is it Ximian or Gnome 1.4 that causes this window manager problem

[pauljohn ukans edu]

jacob berkman wrote:

> this is actually probably nautilus.  you should ask on
> nautilus-list eazel com how to disable the desktop handling when you
> can't get to the preferences dialog.
> 
> jacob

Thanks for that lead. I found that when I start clean, I can get a
nautilus window open and use the configuration to turn off the desktop
management.  I don't get icons in the background anymore, but at least
it lets the window manager run.

Then I got sick of Nautilus because of other miscellaneous crashes and
rpm-uninstalled it.  Now I want to run GMC again, which does run, but I
don't get background icons anymore.

Can you please tell me how to turn them back on again? In GMC I find
preferences, and i say I want the icons on the top left, they don't
show. I suspect my turning off the background icons in Nautilus nuked
the background icons for GMC too.

Thanks in advance
pj

ps: mime type editing still doesnot work for me either.  I've used the
settings/handler routine, and I want to change jpeg files to be opened
by gqview, not eog.  No matter how many times I change in that  menu, it
doesn't work. However, If I become root and edit
/usr/share/mime-info/mc.keys with this:

image/jpeg:
        icon-filename=/usr/share/pixmaps/mc/gnome-image-jpeg.png
        open=gqview %f
        edit=gimp %f

it works fine.  Does the mime type handler work for anybody using gmc?

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