Bug#217731: nautilus: Nautilus shows an empty desktop with Xinerama

[Bruce Stephens]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.4.1-3
Severity: normal

I have a two-headed display, using Xinerama (using the NVidia binary
X server).  Since GNOME 2.4, I think, Nautilus just shows a standard
greyish background (presumably this is from the gtk+ theme that I have).
Setting the background image seems to have no effect.  Right-clicking on
this background doesn't produce the expected Nautilus menu.  xwininfo says
that this background is Desktop (and it even seems to have a vertical
scrollbar).  

This may be connected with the bug#209149, which I'm also seeing.
(I suggest the connection because the sawfish problems seemed to me
to appear as GNOME was being upgraded, and not at a time when sawfish
was changing, so I'm guessing that the sawfish bug might have been
triggered by a change in the way that nautilus (or whatever) draws
the desktop.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cenderis.demon.co.uk 2.4.22ms1 #1 Sat Aug 30 22:00:43 BST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2                  2.3.16-1   Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.4.1-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libaudiofile0                 0.2.3-4    The Audiofile Library
ii  libbonobo2-0                  2.4.1-2    Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0                2.4.0-4    The Bonobo UI library
ii  libbz2-1.0                    1.0.2-1    A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  libc6                         2.3.2-8    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libeel2-2                     2.4.1-1    Eazel Extensions Library (for GNOM
ii  libesd0                       0.2.29-1   Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared 
ii  libgail-common                1.4.1-1    GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgail17                     1.4.1-1    GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.4.0.1-2  GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt1                    1.1.12-4   LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglade2-0                   2.0.1-6    Library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.2.3-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2            2.4.1-3    Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgnome2-0                   2.4.0-4    The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0             2.4.0-1    A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0                  2.4.0.1-5  The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0                2.4.1-4    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnomevfs2-common           2.4.1-4    The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii  libgnutls7                    0.8.9-2    GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii  libgsf-1                      1.8.2-3    Structured File Library - runtime 
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.2.4-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libjpeg62                     6b-9       The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnautilus2-2                2.4.1-3    libraries for nautilus components 
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.8.1-5  Libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.2.5-2    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-2      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  librsvg2-2                    2.4.0-2    SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  libstartup-notification0      0.5-4      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libtasn1-0                    0.1.2-1    Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii  libxml2                       2.5.11-2   GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1                   0.8.3-4    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data                 2.4.1-3    data files for nautilus
ii  xlibs                         4.2.1-12.1 X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                        1:1.1.4-16 compression library - runtime

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