Preventing Nautilus from taking over the desktop

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2012-10-03

I use openbox as my desktop environment/window manager. But I also use Nautilus as a file manager. Nautilus is often used to display the desktop in Ubuntu, but I didn't want it to do that. Here is how you start Nautilus without letting it take over the desktop:

nautilus --no-desktop

I usually assign that to a shortcut in openbox's rc.xml or menu.xml.