Re: Gnome 2 - general questions

[mike <mike redtux demon co uk>]

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:03, Marc Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:56, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > > 2) How do I get rid of Nautilus and/or keep it from starting?
> > 
> > Go to the Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions (under
> > "Applications" from the menubar or under the foot menu from a standard
> > panel), then select Nautilus from the "Current Session" tab. Change
> > its type to "normal" (it is currently "respawn"), then click the
> > "Remove" button. This will stop Nautilus and prevent it from restarting.
> 
> Ok, Thanks for the help but there seems to be a bit of a disconnect.  I
> don't have a "Sessions" choice from Desktop Preferences -> Advanced or
> from anywhere else I can find.  Looking further through a couple
> thousand menu choices, I can't find anything called "Current Session"
> either.  I recall the method you speak of (about stopping Nautilus) from
> my old gnomecc.  But I can't find it now.

Although my method works it seems wierd you dont have the entry in your
menus
What happens if you type session-properties in a terminal?

> > 
> > 
> > > 3) I don't seem to have a Control Center.  Is this normal?
> > 
> > It's part of Nautilus by default. If you don't want to use Nautilus
> > (which is pretty common), just create a launcher on one of your panels
> > that will run the "control center" application. That will start up the
> > control center in its own shell.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> > 
> > > 4) The Help says that the screen saver is supposed to be a capplet
> > > choice but it's not.  I have to run xscreensaver-demo in order to start
> > > it up.  Is this normal?
> > 
> > I don't understand what you are saying here. (Also, ince you didn't
> > know where the control center was, how do you know it isn't available
> > via a capplet?)
> 
> You're right, of course, I was mixing up Applet and Capplet.  So using
> your answer from #3 above, I started both gnomecc and
> gnome-control-center in terminal windows and there is no screen saver
> capplet in either.  Starting xscreensaver-demo seems to be the only way
> I can currently adjust my screen saver but this just doesn't seem
> right.  In my previous Gnome, I indeed did have the screen saver capplet
> from gnomecc.  Now I don't.
> 
> I wonder if some of these issues are due to this being an unsupported
> Gnome 2 from Ximian.  I have no idea, really.  Just wondering.  They
> seem like such trivial little matters in an otherwise working desktop.
> 
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