Gnome~kde confusion

[Cyber Source]

i meant KDM on the last one in the file desktop

David Mangani wrote:

> Cyber Source wrote:
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>> that's the first thing i check, lol. I hate that spatial mode, as 
>> they call it. Reminds me of the default way win95 and nt were. You 
>> mean you don't prefer to have 10 windows open if you have to get into 
>> 10 levels of file location?? What were they thinking on that one? 
>> I've read a few articles that try to explain that the spatial mode is 
>> suppose to be more straight forward in that you will always see where 
>> you are exactly when you click on something, instead of learning the 
>> directory tree and using navigational buttons. Makes no sense to me. 
>> Anyway, one quick way out of it is to right click on the desktop icon 
>> and select browse, that brings up the browing nautilus window too. 
>> Also, are you using KDM for your login screen?
>>
>> David Mangani wrote:
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>>> David Mangani wrote:
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>>>> Cyber Source wrote:
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>>>>> on fc2 they made changes to the way that nautilus works (browser 
>>>>> mode turned off), use the gconf editor and see if nautilus itself 
>>>>> is turned off too. I dont have a running fc2 box in front of me 
>>>>> right now so I can't be more specific but if you use the gconf 
>>>>> editor, I will bet you'll find the culprit. That is definitely not 
>>>>> the default behaviour.
>>>>>
>>>>> David Mangani wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> what happens if you type nautilus at a command prompt?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> David Mangani wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>    Been using kde for the most part on my FC2 box. I recently 
>>>>>>>> have been giving others alook, xfce, enlightenment and of 
>>>>>>>> course gnome. Here's where I am confused. On my gnome desktop, 
>>>>>>>> I click on the "home" icon and it opens nicely, but in 
>>>>>>>> konqueror. Anyone ever seen this or know how to correct it. I 
>>>>>>>> believe nautalus should open it. Was actually looking for 
>>>>>>>> nautalus to play with the direct cd burning option. Anyway, 
>>>>>>>> thanks for any input you may have.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Dave
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>>>>>> Then I do get nautilus.  I just don't understand why the default 
>>>>>> file manager in gnome would be konqueror. Just doesn't seem right.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Dave
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the tip, I will take a look and see. I tried right 
>>>> clicking on the icon and selecting "open with" and typing nautilus. 
>>>> The error message I get is
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>>
>>>>> nautilus" can't open "Home" because "nautilus" can't access files 
>>>>> at "file" locations.
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>>>> Kind of strange. I will check out your tip though. Thank you for 
>>>> the direction.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
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>>> Using the editor I was able to see the "browser mode" you refered 
>>> to. I actually prefer this method " the old way " over the new 
>>> "spacial view" mode. But I did not see a clear marking for "browser 
>>> off" or such. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see it. Oh well, at 
>>> least now when I click on "start here" I get the old browser mode! 
>>> Thats a good thing.
>>>
>>> Dave
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> It seems I am using gdm ( the default ). Now that you mention it I 
> don't see the option to change to kdm. I have tried other disto's and 
> it is usually right there. Debian comes to mind. There is a whole 
> branch off the main menu for boot options etc. Anyway, where is the 
> option to change to kdm in Fedora. ( Core 2 ).  I've been deep diving 
> into some of the config screens and actually found another location to 
> change the default browser config for nautilus. Main menu -> 
> preferences -> control center -> more preferences -> nautilus. Click 
> here and you can select "always use browser mode"
>
> Dave
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