Nautilus starts every bootup and Desktop reverts

[Fornhamfred]

I installed XFCE and changed the default desktop. After adding Awn dock and adding places to the dock, every time I bootup Nautilus opens and the desktop reverts back to the live cd version with icons for my computer, home and trash displayed.

Any help please.

[zerozero]

if you don't need/want nautilus, uninstall it (most if not all the functions are covered by the file manager you already have installed, thunar)

[Fornhamfred]

Thanks

Do you know what is causing nautilus to open automatically and change the desktop?

It is useful to have nautilus as I use bookmarks to access the shared drives on my windows machine and it appears that although you can add bookmarks in Thunar they do not stick after rebooting.

[zerozero]

well then it's a bit different, you do need nautilus, see this viewtopic.php?f=220&t=107701&hilit=+nautilus

[drdavidk]

To sum up the linked thread: run 'nautilus --no-desktop' rather than just 'nautilus.' You should also run gconf-editor, click apps, then nautilus, then preferences, and untick "show desktop."

[ukbrian]

I use a NTFS partition for all my data, the partition has a label off "500-data".
I created a folder in my user folder called "500-data"
I add this line to my fstab

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LABEL=500-data       /home/user/500-data   ntfs-3g  defaults,uid=1000         0      0

so no need for nautilus