I'm using awesome wm on a ubuntu 12.04. It works fine except that whenever I run guake or nautilus should the background being reverted back to what's my background on unity.
on using nautilus, there's a simple workaround that I've found here
Problem with Nautilus when using awesome
But is there a permanent configuration to set here so as to not conflict with awesome?
But I haven't found a solution yet when using guake.
Install dconf-tools
Open
dconf-editor
.Search for org > gnome > desktop > background
Uncheck "draw-background" and "show-desktop-icons".
Good Luck!
P.S. I have no experience with awesome wm and cannot test my solution, but I really think this should solve your problem. I am sorry in advance to steal your time if it does not work.
Edit:
I overread the Guake Part of the question. I am not sure if you want the Unity background or not, but there is "Guake Preferences" installed with Guake, where you can set a background or switch transparency off to get what you want. or not?
You could modify the /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop so it says in the line
It should be the third line
I realise this post is rather old but I just thought of a possible permanent configuration. Although this looks like and probably is a workaround it should fix your issue permanently, that is, if you are launching nautilus with the nautilus command.
I do not know about guake.