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

[Petre Scheie]

The icewm-start script has this line:

nautilus &

which will call nautilus giving users desktop icons and opening their home directory 
automatically when they login.  If you change it to

nautilus -n &

they still get desktop icons but their home folder won't automatically be opened when 
they login.  This doesn't save on resources, only gets rid of the annoyance.  To save on 
resources, you can turn off nautilus altogether:

# nautilus &

but then you lose the desktop icons.  OTOH, if you're using IceWM, you can put 
everything they need down on the toolbar; having desktop icons or not seems trivial to 
me, but we all we all have users who seem to get really worked up over it if they 
disappear.  If you want a lightweight desktop with icons, have a look at rox-filer. 
Unfortunately, I don't think it's in the default yum repositories.

With all that said, if you're system has been working fine, and just slowed down in 
recent months, I'd agree that the problem is probably the apps, not the desktop 
environment.  But perhaps switching environments will help.

Huck wrote:
> 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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