Re: Nautilus and Background control

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 03:03, Beny Spensieri Jr wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm using nautilus-2.2.4-0.ximian.4.7 on XD2 and was wondering if there
> was any way to make it play nicely with Enlightenment.
> 
> Is there any way to make Nautilus give up control of the background yet
> still have it just put the files on the desktop (and not steal the mouse
> clicks)?

No. You can however disable the desktop. Then E will work, but you won't
get any desktop icons.

> I'm sure that this has been discussed to death.  I tried searching the
> mailing list archive, but most of these discussions were from 2001 and
> I'm sure that Nautilus has made some significant changes since then.

There has been all sorts of changes since then, however this is a
fundamental issue in how the desktop is implemented, and it will not
change.

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