Originally sent this to the CentOS list, but it's probably a GNOME issue....
In the process of doing something else, I happened to open the Network
Servers window from the Places applet menu. When I did, it killed all my
Nautilus windows on all my workspaces. (I had to experiment a little to
prove this, but it did happen.)
Re: KDE 2 for Ubuntu ... I'm finding the network performance of gnome terminal, and KDE konsole...Gnome have just too much bloat for me. ... (uk.comp.os.linux)
Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu ... Do I understand correctly that you boot stright to gnome,... download and get poor network components but if you do a gnome network ... I installed and configured some servers for a small business that wanted gui's on their servers so network manager was installed by default. ... It was pointed to one of the two gateways, but when I started the server after installation it kept insisting on using the other gateway and obtaining an address via dhcp, even though I had given the one interface I configured a static address. ... (Debian-User)
Re: personal file share fc6 not working ... pfs on and in the Gnome network folder on both the FC6 ... machine I can open the folder, but on the FC6 machine... As usual gnome provides no obvious way to find out why; ... (Fedora)
Re: Unable to connect to network ... I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian... and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. ... whereas Debian - using Gnome - fails to access the network.... (Debian-User)
Re: starting X hangs on network timeout (hosts file ignored) ... > running tcpdump when X startx shows the name lookup BTW: ... using it) gnome.... they will be streams, they are what gives gnome its network transparency,... even local only connections open up sockets.... (Debian-User)