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

[Huck]

Well...this is what I thought...
I thought it turned off the homedir window opening..but I thought it 
also caused a loss of icons on the desktop...am I wrong? I would be VERY 
happy to be wrong...
Having a meeting today about 'slowness' with ltsp machines in library 
today...it's gigabit and total number of stations on network is about 40 
with a dual 3ghz 4 gig of ram scsi hd's server...that has been plug'n 
away for a couple years now. if disable'n nautilus is the key to freeing 
up some resources then great ;)
I fear that it's multi-media being accessed by browsers of the web 
causing the slowdowns though..

--Huck

Petre Scheie wrote:
> 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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