Gnome desktop icons in XFCE?? WTF??!?!?

[Jammin1984]

Hmmmmm.

So I booted slack today into XFCE as usual but now I have gnome desktop icons!!




What the hell??

I did change the terminal in the XFCE panel from xterm 4 to gnome-terminal but cant see why this would make any difference.

Thanks much.

<edit> I cant change my wallpapers either!?!

[valan]

It would appear you are running nautilus, it likes to steal the desktop. I don't know why gnome-terminal would start it up, but killing it should get rid of it. Perhaps you started up nautilus at one point or another? Passing it the --nodesktop (or something like that) option will keep it from taking the desktop.

[Jammin1984]

Ok thanks much.

Would I just add "-nodesktop" to the command for nautilus do the trick?

Thanks again

[valan]

You'll have to check nautilus --help for the exact parameter to use. And this only works with nautilus, won't do a thing with gnome terminal. But it is nautilus that's stealing your desktop, so whatever is calling it needs to use this option.