GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 672429
nautilus always does show_desktop
Last modified: 2012-03-20 13:07:55 UTC
Original report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/930134 Even if show_desktop is set to false and exit_with_last_window to true (gconftool and gconf-editor confirm both are set so), Nautilus displays desktop (painted blue, "Change Desktop Background" from menu does nothing - no dialog appears); shows icons (with proper text but no pictures); remains after the window is closed, exits only via "nautilus --quit". Nautilus up to 3.2.1, xfce (Xubuntu 11.10), same result whether xfce "display compositing" is on or off. Addition: nautilus does obey command line "nautilus --no-desktop", but this doesn't allow to use it from preferred applications, only manual launch of the specific .desktop avoids this bug. Screenshot: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/930134/+attachment/2735640/+files/Screenshot%20-%20naudesktop%20-%20term%2Cdeskfile%201.png
(In reply to comment #0) > > Even if show_desktop is set to false and exit_with_last_window to true > (gconftool and gconf-editor confirm both are set so), > Nautilus displays desktop Except that Nautilus >= 3.0 uses GSettings instead of GConf. Since I can't reproduce this bug here (and there seem to be no duplicates of this occurring in Bugzilla), I think you just have the wrong values in GSettings, (maybe they were migrated from your old GConf configuration). You can get/set those with the command gsettings get/set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons Please reopen this bug in case it's still reproducible with the right GSettings values.