Re: Desktop over Desktop??

[Chandra Mukhyala <chandra netapp com>]

"Lee J." wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 14:50, Lee J. wrote:
> > 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 just wanted to add that this 'double-desktop problem' is compounded by
> the fact that Gnome is set to 'save the current session' by default.  So
> if you haven't changed your 'Session Startup Settings', the
> 'double-desktop' will be 'remembered' every time you log back into your
> account.
> 

Even after you turn off the 'save the current session' option, your
session history will be remebered untill you delete the
~/.gnome/session.
So you should delete the session file after turning off that option.