Re: Desktop over Desktop??

["Lee J." <mlist strictlybritish com>]

On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 14:29, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to linux, but I have some unix background.  I am having a problem
> with gnome.  When it starts up I can see icons flash, but then another
> desktop gets put over the top with different icons.  The desktop is actually
> about half an inch lower than the desktop below, so I can see my home
> directory icon.

I've had this problem before and it was due to GMC and Nautilus somehow
conflicting.  I prefer GMC over Nautilus and despite choosing GMC for my
desktop, Nautilus got executed when I clicked on Help (or something). 
This caused the Nautilus desktop to load on top of the GMC desktop
causing the problem you describe.  The way I solved the problem was to
uninstall Nautilus completely and remove the ~/.nautilus dir (I seem to
recall having to remove Nautilus related files from the ~/.gnome-desktop
dir too - to prevent icons being hidden in GMC).

Obviously, this solution was OK for me, but if you prefer (and chose)
the Nautilus desktop over GMC - and want to keep it - you're going to
require a different solution.
 
Regards :)

Lee J.