Cinnamon: Launching nautilus changes desktop background
Impact:
Visual appearance and behaviour of desktop are changed unintentionally.
Reproduction:
Change desktop background to non-default
Launch nautilus file browser (e.g. from run dialogue)
Observe desktop changes to the default LinuxMint17.2 wallpaper.
Observe that I can now right-click and, e.g., make a new folder, which was disabled previously.
Notes:
It looks like the correct wallpaper is still there underneath when I log out.
After log out, logging in again yields the correct wallpaper again, until nautilus is re-launched.
There are not any obvious new processes that I can see that nautilus might have launched.
Nautilus 3.10.1 installed from the normal mint repos.
Mint 17.2 64-bit
Cinnamon 2.6.13
ch3pjw
All 4 comments
If desktop icons are active in nautilus it will take over the desktop when started, you need to disable them using dconf-editor or run this as standard user
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
leigh123linux
on 17 Aug 2015
Fab, thanks, that worked a treat. Whilst this isn't a bug, per-se, is interaction with nautilus in this manner unsupported as far as mint/cinnamon is concerned?
ch3pjw
on 17 Aug 2015
FYI this bug is still active using the following versions:
Linux Mint 18.1 x64
Nautilus 3.14.3
XFCE 4.12
The "fix" as suggested by @leigh123linux fixes the bug and the desktop is restored
kurdtpage
on 26 Aug 2017
@kurdtpage I wouldn't describe this as a bug!
It's a choice to pollute your system with nautilus and use it (you could use nemo desktop icons to block it).
Also nautilus-3.22 fixes the issue with it's seperate nautilus-desktop process.
leigh123linux
on 26 Aug 2017
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If desktop icons are active in nautilus it will take over the desktop when started, you need to disable them using dconf-editor or run this as standard user