Re: Nautilus: Lord Of The Desktop

[Adam Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

>That's your WM.  Windows are in "layers" in most WMs, Nautilus is being
>created in a layer that is higher than the panels.  Newer GNOME versions
>have some options with panels to have them show over all windows.  Also,
>any up-to-date GNOME-compliant WM should automatically handle the
>situation.  If you're using Sawfish, make sure that is up to date.

It is the latest from red carpet,  all the exact same packages as on the
other workstations.  I lost patience,  nuked .gnome from the console, 
and next time I logged in Nautilus/Sawfish were happy with each other. 
So it must have been some user setting.

>>I have several RH7.2 Ximian boxes.  All work great with Nautilus as the 
>>"desktop file manager"
>>I have one that was using GMC before the upgrade.   Now that Nautilus 
>>learned how to spell P-E-P-P-Y I wanted to switch from GNC to Nautilus.  
>>So I remove GMC (rpm -e gmc)