Re: Nautilus: Lord Of The Desktop

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 15:38, Adam Williams wrote:
> >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.

Yes.  Sawfish and the panels can have all sorts of weird settings.  One
of the wonderful things about GNOME is the way that 90% of the time,
when you upgrade a piece of software, you have to delete all your
settings.  Hopefully GNOME2 won't suffer from this so much..