[arch-general] Cannot Find Desktop in GNOME3

[C Anthony Risinger]

On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Ionut Biru <ibiru at 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