On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:52:23 +0200 (CEST)
"Carlos E. R."
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On Wednesday, 2011-09-21 at 20:46 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote:
2011. szeptember 19. 17:30 napon "Carlos E. R." <> írta:
On Monday, 2011-09-19 at 12:46 +0200, Istvan Gabor wrote:
A GNOME user might help with this issue.
Kill nautilus.
Thanks Carlos.
Nautilus might be the culprit. When I login to my KDE3 session several gnome programs are started: nautilus, gconfd-2, polkit-gnome-au, gnome-do, gnome-do (copied from the result of ps -u myusername).
How can I prevent them from starting in my KDE3 session? Why are they started at all, and what is the way to configure them?
Nautilus is not a "normal" file browser, it also does special tasks inside gnome, like drawing the icons in the desktop. You should never run it outside gnome, because it has unexpected side effects.
I think killing it should be enough, I don't remember what mechanism it uses to start again in a new session, if it does, in kde. Kde has an autostart folder, I think, so look in there. KDE users may know how to tell kde not to start it again.
It is not the first time I have seen this problem, but I don't remember how to finally stop it from reocurring.
The rest of the programs you see running will disappear when you stop nautilus, they are auxiliaries.
- -- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
This is what prompted my original reply to check the settings in /etc/sysconfig ... I realize now that Istvan's experience and circumstances are quite different, but the 'stickiness' of certain gnome desktop items, as unwanted artifacts when I returned to kde, was similar. This may be different now, but I learned back then to always use YaST's /etc/sysconfig editor to switch both items when wanting to change desktops. That procedure avoided unwanted artifacts / behaviors. I regularly run gnome and whenever nautilus or something under it's control misbehaves I just issue 'killall nautilus' which, in gnome, kills it and it automatically starts again. No idea how it behaves under kde :-) Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org