Re: [hackers] [dwm] bar disapperaing after Gnome explorer is opened

From: Quolick <quolick_AT_conus.info>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2015 13:28:40 +0200

On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 01:05:00PM +0200, Markus Seeber wrote:
> On 08/08/2015 12:50 PM, Quolick wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Sorry in advance for being lame.
> > I use dwm 6.0 in Ubuntu 14, where the default WM is Gnome.
> > And when some X program opened Gnome "explorer" in some directory, everything disappears.
> > I can switch to other workspaces using Alt-1, etc, but when I switch to the current one again, there is nothing.
> > Is it known bug?
> >
> >
> >
>
> "explorer" is probably "nemo" in your case. Nemo has on gnome also the
> responsibility to handle the desktop-background e.g. placing icons on
> your desktop. In dwm this causes a new window to be created that is
> empty -> your description of "everything disappears".
>
> When running "nemo --no-desktop" this does not happen. This is not a bug
> in dwm but caused by some kind of strange design in nemo/gnome.

It was Nautilus in my case. Not sure if anyone interesting, but this is helped me:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
 
Now Nautilus doesn't manage desktop, this is equivalent to "--no-desktop" switch.

Thanks a lot!
Received on Sat Aug 08 2015 - 13:28:40 CEST