Re: Gnome 2 - general questions

[Marc Williams <marcw onlymooo com>]

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 23:10, mike wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:03, Marc Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 19:56, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
> > > > 2) How do I get rid of Nautilus and/or keep it from starting?
> > > 
> > > Go to the Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions (under
> > > "Applications" from the menubar or under the foot menu from a standard
> > > panel), then select Nautilus from the "Current Session" tab. Change
> > > its type to "normal" (it is currently "respawn"), then click the
> > > "Remove" button. This will stop Nautilus and prevent it from restarting.
> > 
> > Ok, Thanks for the help but there seems to be a bit of a disconnect.  I
> > don't have a "Sessions" choice from Desktop Preferences -> Advanced or
> > from anywhere else I can find.  Looking further through a couple
> > thousand menu choices, I can't find anything called "Current Session"
> > either.  I recall the method you speak of (about stopping Nautilus) from
> > my old gnomecc.  But I can't find it now.
> 
> Although my method works it seems wierd you dont have the entry in your
> menus
> What happens if you type session-properties in a terminal?

That got me a "command not found" but I did a little looking and found
gnome-session-properties which is the absolute correct tool to do what I
need.  That tool is NOT available through my menus.  Somehow that choice
didn't get installed in the menus.  Again, I wonder if that's a Ximian
thing.  Thanks!