[luau] Lost my Desktop

[Ray Strode]

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>Ray -- I'm not very clever, but when I lost my desktop the only thing to
>show up was a blue screen and a mouse pointer.  
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Oh so you lost more than your desktop then :-)  I think Ralph only lost 
his desktop icons (but still
had his panel etc).  

>Clicking the mouse buttons brought up the mapped menus and I was able to do things, which extended only to closing the Gnome desktop and logging in to use the KDE.
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Interesting.. if the mapped menus come up, then Sawfish is loading. 
 What happens if you use the menus to
get a terminal window and then type

panel & disown & exit ?

The panel is the bar that normally comes up on the lower part of the 
screen.  It has the foot menu, the task list,
the pager, and clock, etc...  & disown means, make the panel a 
background process and detach from the
controlling tty.  & exit means close the terminal window.

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>  Well I ramble, what is the nautilus and how do you disown with it?  I'm a
>bit lost...  
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Nautilus is the desktop icons and file manager.