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Floating around

3:10pm, Tuesday 7 August 2007

My work desktop's hard disk died (again) so I did a fresh Debian Etch install. I thought I'd try out Gnome - stop laughing at the back. But it hides the root window. How could I live without my trusty floatbg?

1. run gconf-editor (that probably lives in a menu somewhere)
2. change apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop to false
3. in Desktop/Preferences/Sessions, add floatbg as a startup program

Ta-daa!

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