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Originally posted by dhamsaic
That's one of those little annoying things that I hate about Linux. In Windows, there would be a box that would ask whether or not you wanted it to show up every fucking time you logged in....
Anyway, there probably <b>is</b> a way to get rid of it, but I'll be damned if I can find it.
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More like, "that's one of the things you hate about immature software". Early Windows shoved just as many things up your nose on the desktop, with no way to trash them except perhaps through a editing a secret registry key. And it's still that way, although most of the things you're forced to eat are (usually) less obvious these days.
Nautilus isn't identical with Linux. If you don't like what it does (or what doofi at RH have patched it to do, since somebody told them their mission was to make Linux desktop-user friendly), you can indeed run something *else* for your desktop.Try that with Windows.
Your Windows desktop doesn't actually belong to you. It belongs to MSFT; they consider it a corporate asset. That's why they've been dragged kicking and screaming through the courts of the land to gain the huge concession of letting anybody change it at all.
I built a 7.3 machine for Amateur Radio Field Day, but it's still out in the shed; hasn't made it back into the house yet since my office has too many other auxilliary PCs running that I need for another project. I do recall renaming or deleting the "breadcrumbs for the clueless" that RH put on the desktop.
To my mind, mandatory running of Nautilus is a fairly high price to pay for somebody's BeOS envy, itself a cultish form of MacOS envy. But downloading and installing Ximian as a solution seems to me like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer, even if you do have broadband.
Just as a guess I'd say the Gnome session manager is probably set up to start Nautilus pointing the "start-here:" page. You can get to that from menuing "Programs/Settings/Session" on the Gnome panel. Another possibility is that there may be an object in ~/.gnome-desktop that's making it happen. If I get ambitious I'll haul that 7.3 machine in from the shed and fire it up...