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I'm running i3-wm under a gnome session in 12.04.

Nautilus is not normally running.

I regularly loop-mount ISO and other filesystem image files, and every time I do this nautilus pops up both a desktop window and a window opened at the new mount point.

Uninstalling nautilus is not an option -- I tried this, but apt reports that dozens of packages depend on it (directly and indirectly).

This question is similar, but only talks about preventing launching on USB stick insertion. I don't want nautilus to run, ever -- removal would be ok with me if it didn't require uninstalling the world.

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Reset to default
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Run in terminal :

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

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  • +1 This is the answer as it prevents the desktop from launch in other apps that call on nautilus (e.g. Sublime).
    – eduncan911
    Mar 2, 2015 at 17:56
  • @bstpierre Please mark the post as the right answer (assuming this worked for you).
    – root_access
    Jul 25, 2016 at 12:17
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What I did was creating an executable script to open Nautilus for me:

sudo nano /usr/bin/nfm

Copy and paste this in:

#!/bin/bash
nautilus  --browser --no-desktop &

Finally make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/nfm

In your i3 config file, wherever you put it, make sure you run this:

# nautilus as a daemon!
nautilus --no-default-window --no-desktop &
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  • How does this prevent nautilus from being run? Did you even read the question?
    – Benubird
    Dec 11, 2012 at 9:17
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You can disable the permission to execute nautilus like this in terminal:

sudo chmod a-x /usr/bin/nautilus
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Try to disable automount with the dconf editor. You can find a good tutorial right here.

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