When I run nautilus using krunner, my plasma-desktop, meaning the wallpaper and widgets gets replaced with Gnome desktop and icons. Only the default KDE panel in the bottom of the screen remains intact.

And I also want to point that after running nautilus once on computer, I experience this strange thing. When I run VLC and double click the video for full screen, I experience to see gnome desktop for a fraction of a second. I experience this same gnome wallpaper for a fraction of second when I browse through full screen slides in OpenOffice..

If I run nautilus from terminal, the desktop is not replaced.

I also tried searching google about the topic but couldnt find anything relevant.

I use:
ArchLinux64 with KDE 4.5.1

This is definitely not expected behaviour, and indicates very abusive behaviour by Nautilus. Please try monitoring the content of ~/.xsession-errors or equivalent for any messages relating to this.

You need to tell Nautilus not to display the desktop: likely some key in the gconf2 registry is still there.

Specifically, open gconf-editor and look for apps -> nautilus -> preferences and see whether show_desktop is enabled or not. It should be disabled if it is enabled.

If the setting is disabled, but ignored by nautilus, then it is a bug, indeed.

From what I'm aware this is not a bug but apparently a well-known nautilus behaviour. Not only does this occur in KDE but also in most other DE's.

I found a fix whilst using openbox but works in all other enviroments as well.

copy the following into a script:

#! /bin/sh

#Script to kill nautilus file manager if the whole Interface converts to Gnome enviroment

# Disable Nautilus desktop.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false &

# Do not let Nautilus set the background image.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background false &

#end of script

then save the file, chmod +x, put it anywhere you want and add the script to startup scripts in KDE Autostart scripts location.

reboot,

einar wrote:You need to tell Nautilus not to display the desktop: likely some key in the gconf2 registry is still there.

Specifically, open gconf-editor and look for apps -> nautilus -> preferences and see whether show_desktop is enabled or not. It should be disabled if it is enabled.

If the setting is disabled, but ignored by nautilus, then it is a bug, indeed.

Sorry Einar, I misread what you wrote, you're right about it being a bug if ignored

darkhellbird wrote:From what I'm aware this is not a bug but apparently a well-known nautilus behaviour. Not only does this occur in KDE but also in most other DE's.

I found a fix whilst using openbox but works in all other enviroments as well.

copy the following into a script:

#! /bin/sh

#Script to kill nautilus file manager if the whole Interface converts to Gnome enviroment

# Disable Nautilus desktop.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false &

# Do not let Nautilus set the background image.
gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/background/draw_background false &

#end of script

then save the file, chmod +x, put it anywhere you want and add the script to startup scripts in KDE Autostart scripts location.

reboot,

Thanks. I was facing the issue after running Dropbox also.
Thanks for the solution..