Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 I'm using Gnome 1.4.0.4-16 (with Sawfish as the WM) and when I set a background as scaled, (or even tiled for that matter), it splits near the top of the screen. You can look here to see what I'm talking about: http://omarserenity.com/Images/desktop.png or here for the top part of a fullsize image (1024 X 768) to see better if you have the bandwidth: http://omarserenity.com/Images/desktop2.png I have no idea how to fix it. If I try to move an icon past that line where it splits, it won't go...gets bumped back down. It doesn't matter what virtual desktop I am on or how many I have. Also, apps with their windows full-sized are not affected...they take up the whole screen. Ex: Netscape fullsize (small image): http://omarserenity.com/Images/netscape.png Netscape fullsize (top part of large image - 1024 X 768): http://omarserenity.com/Images/netscape2.png Any ideas? TIA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 When Gnome first starts up, before the taskbar comes up and the icons are drawn, the background is okay, so it's probably a Nautilus problem? If I go into Nautilus's preferences and uncheck "Use Nautilus to draw deasktop", the background is fine (but no desktop icons). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted February 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Hmmmm...it fixed itself after I rechecked "Use Nautilus to draw desktop". Go figure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 21, 2003 Report Share Posted February 21, 2003 Interesting... hopefully this will help someone else who has this problem someday.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 11, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2003 Hmmmm...I have a new problem. I cannot find the 'Use Nautilus to draw desktop' option anymore. Where is it? I kinda would like some icons on my desktop again. TIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Falcdragon Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Run Gconf go apps > nautilus > preferences tick show_desktop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 I don't recall gnome1.4 having gconf-editor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Actually, it's not there. I've logged in as a different user andI see where the option to 'Use Nautilus to draw desktop' is supposed to be in Nautilus's preferences, but the option is not there for my main user anymore. I've tried deleting the ~/.gnome directory, ~/.gnome-desktop directory and the ~/.nautilus directory but nothing brings it back. Guess I'll have to recreate my user again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Have you tried nautilus from a terminal? If I use Esetroot to set the background, and run nautilus from a terminal, it'll set the background over Esetroot and bring up the icons. Maybe doing this will reactivate something somehow? I don't know if there's anything in nautilus --help that you could try or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 14, 2003 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Wow. That worked. Running Nautilus from the terminal brought the option back. Now the option is there even when I run Nautilus from the launcher. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted May 14, 2003 Report Share Posted May 14, 2003 Welcome :) You'll notice the menu entries have --no-desktop appended. This is because you don't need 2 of all nautilus stuff running. So when I use gnome2 and idesk for icons and Esetroot to set the background I can still use nautilus with nautilus --no-desktop :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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