Desktop Environments Collide!

Abomb · 12-22-2005, 07:10 PM

Hey guys. This is really wierd problem. It appears that KDE and Gnome have collided for me. I use KDE for the most part, haven't used Gnome in quite some time. But now, all of a sudden, when I go to a certain desktop (it's random, sometimes its 3 and sometimes its 4) it shows the background as Gnome but my KDE taskbar remains the same.

Can anyone explain this or is this some new bug?

Distro: FC4

IBall · 12-22-2005, 07:14 PM

If you have used Nautilus, it will draw the desktop from Gnome as well as opening the file manager. Nautilus always does this, it is a pain in the arse.

Start Nautilus (If you must use it) using

Code:

nautilus --no-desktop

I hope this helps
--Ian

Abomb · 12-22-2005, 07:18 PM

Hrmm... I don't it's that considering I don't know what Nautilus is.

It started when I right-clicked on the panel and try to add aRts Control. Then everything locked up and I had to reboot manually. Everything is fine except for 1 desktop is Gnome while the rest is KDE. I tried rebooting and selecting KDE instead of Last for the session selector but that didn't work.

IBall · 12-22-2005, 07:32 PM

Nautilus is the Gnome File Manager.

All I can think of is that there is a stray Nautilus process running somewhere. Try "ps aux | grep nautilus" to see, and then kill it. Perhaps it is being started when KDE starts for some reason???

The reason I have suggested this, is that this is the only reason I have come across for whey Gnome would hijack your KDE desktop. If anyone else has any ideas...

--Ian

Abomb · 12-22-2005, 07:43 PM

Ahh so that is what Nautilus is!

Well I ran it and it was definently Nautilus hijacking my desktop, thank you! Everything works great now.