[K12OSN] how to turn off nautilus under IceWM--SOLVED

[Petre Scheie]

As far as I know, that's the only thing it does.  According to a man page I found on 
nautilus -n is the same as  --no-default-window which means " Only create windows for 
explicitly specified URIs."  There are other switches too--see 
http://linux.com.hk/penguin/man/1/nautilus.html

IceWM calls Nautilus so users can have icons on the desktop. I think Eric is the one who 
configures IceWM to do this when he bundles IceWM into K12LTSP; I don't think Fedora 
comes with IceWM by default (?).  Some people turn off Nautilus because it's a bit of a 
resource hog, and they want the leanest system possible thus choosing IceWM.  I've 
looked using some other lighter packages to provide desktop icons for IceWM over the 
years, they all seemed to have some quirks that I didn't want to put up with.  And in 
the intervening years, hardware has gotten so cheap, at least in the US, that it's 
become less and less of an issue.  But IceWM is still on the menu, I have some users who 
like it, but the consensus is that the home folder opening upon login is annoying, so I 
want to turn that part off, but not lose the desktop icons.

Petre

Huck wrote:
> Is the ONLY thing this does is stop the users' home dir from opening on 
> login? I've never tweaked with nautilus...not sure what it's purpose is.
> --Huck
> 
> Petre Scheie wrote:
>> Answering my own question, the file that launches icewm and nautilus 
>> and opens the users home directory at login time is 
>> /usr/bin/icewm-start.  To turn off the automatic opening of the user's 
>> home directory is still the same: change the 'nautilus &' line to 
>> 'nautilus -n &'.  I'll update the wiki.
>>
>> Petre Scheie wrote:
>>
>>> I want to modify the launch of nautilus under IceWM so that it 
>>> doesn't automatically open the user's home directory upon login.  
>>> This used to be configured in /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/IceWM back in the 
>>> 2.x days (according to the wiki page, which I wrote).  But in 4.4.1 
>>> there is no such file; matter of fact, the only thing in 
>>> /etc/X11/gdm/Sessions/ is a file called 'Reset your desktop'.  I 
>>> can't even find the config file that tells gdm to list IceWM as one 
>>> of the login options.  It's been a while since I fooled around with 
>>> IceWM on K12.  Where is this stuff configured nowadays?
>>>
>>> Petre
>>>
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