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psi42
08-15-2003, 02:38 AM
Hi

I am running Slackware 9.0 with XFCE 4 on an old Cyrix 250 Mhz machine. The computer is not fast enough to run GNOME, but it does run GNOME's filemanager Nautilus at a pretty good speed.

Now when I saw that, I figured I just had to use the eye-candy filemanager, but the problem is whenever I start Nautilus from within XFCE4, it also starts up the GNOME desktop and the GNOME application menu, which interfere with XFCE4 and also slow down the system.

Is there any (simple) way I can get Nautilus to run by itself, without starting any other GNOME componenets?

I have searched google and the forums, but haven't found anything (it's not really the easiest thing to search for:)).

Thanks in advance,
~psi42
viperlin
08-15-2003, 02:50 AM
yes there is
Ryochan7
08-15-2003, 02:51 AM
I have had problems with Nautilus under IceWM as well. I'm not sure about the components you are talking about, but I know of a way that the desktop won't show up when you launch Nautilus.

An example from the command line

type "nautilus --no-desktop" without the quotes

This will bring up nautilus without bringing up the GNOME desktop. If you are having problems with you menu doing the same thing, change the menu config file, whatever it may be in your case.
psi42
08-15-2003, 03:06 AM
Originally posted by Ryochan7
I have had problems with Nautilus under IceWM as well. I'm not sure about the components you are talking about, but I know of a way that the desktop won't show up when you launch Nautilus.

An example from the command line

type "nautilus --no-desktop" without the quotes

This will bring up nautilus without bringing up the GNOME desktop. If you are having problems with you menu doing the same thing, change the menu config file, whatever it may be in your case.


Thanks that works great :) :)
viperlin
08-15-2003, 03:08 AM
awwwww come on, that was in the man page, he said he had searched.

well next time check the man page, all simple things like that are in there.
psi42
08-15-2003, 03:15 AM
Originally posted by viperlin
awwwww come on, that was in the man page, he said he had searched.

well next time check the man page, all simple things like that are in there.

:) Good point, but just one problem:


$ man nautilus
No manual entry for nautilus


I guess it wasn't installed. :eek:

Teaches me not to assume there is no manpage just because one isn't installed. :) :)

Thanks again,
~psi42