On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org> wrote:
On 05/09/2011 11:11 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote:
You can install gnome-tweak-tool. When you launch it, the last option is "File Manager". Then you can select "Have file manager handle the desktop". Logout, login, and your icons and folders should be back to your desktop. It works almost as it used to.
i don't really encourage anyone to do that when using gnome-shell. With gnome-shell only ONE instance of the application can run and enabling the desktop to be handled by nautilus will mean that is running in the background and you cannot click on the icon to launch it again.
ah ... slightly annoying. thanks for that. i had it enabled for all my machines because i like nautilus-driven desktop, but this is subtle and i didn't notice the effect it would have ... sooo, how can you have two directories open then? i see that it works by clicking on the desktop directories twice; couldn't the icon be made to launch nautilus in the same way (however that is)? C Anthony