Disable Nautilus Desktop in XFCE – How to Guide

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I am using nautilus on xfce and oneiric, but the desktop of nautilus shows up although I have activated it via gconf, e.g. by

gconftool-2 \                                                                   
--type bool \             
--set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false

I remember this had worked on previous versions of Ubuntu.

Best Answer

Install gnome-tweak-tool. There is a setting called "Have file manager handle the desktop" that you can switch off.

The configuration system has been replaced, so gconf won't work in all cases anymore. However, not all apps have been converted yet, so it's still present.

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