On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 23:03 -0400, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I haven't been able to find any information about the following > question. I hope that I'm coming to the right place to get an answer > ... or at least for someone to point me to the documentation that covers > the case that I mention here: > > I'm using Gnome 2.6.0 under Fedora Core 2, and I'd like to use all the > features of Gnome except for one: I want no icons at all on my desktop. > > I know that I can get rid of them as follows: > > rm -rf ~/Desktop > touch ~/Desktop > chmod 000 ~/Desktop > > ... and then log out and log in again. > > But that's an ugly hack, and it causes an error box to pop up when I log > back in. > > I looked through everything that is changeable via gconf-edit, but > nothing there seemed to have anything to do with eliminating desktop > icons. > > I know that I can switch to KDE or to use a different window manager, > but I'd like to use Gnome if at all possible. > > Is there a recommended and proper way to remove all desktop icons under > Gnome without my having to resort to the extreme measures that I > outlined above? > > Thanks in advance. You can change the gconf key /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop That will make nautilus not use the desktop for anything. I think you'll lose, in particular, the desktop context menu, though. HTH, -- m -- Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <msuarezalvarez arnet com ar> http://www.gnome.org/~mariano
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