Re: Permanently removing all desktop icons under gnome 2.0

[Stephen Kuhn <stephen kuhn gmx net>]

On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 14:10, Gnome User wrote:

> Thanks.
> 
> Using sawmill is indeed a bit better, although still not ideal.
> 
> Is there no way to just tell Gnome to get rid of all of those icons
> and still have its other desktop functionality enabled?
> 
> Is my only option to put a "/bin/rm -f ~/.gnome-desktop/*" in my
> .profile, after all?

Well, I'd tend to consider putting an "rm" in a script as being rather
"iffy" at best anyways...but if you've reconfigured nautilus to NOT draw
the desktop, AND you were using Sawfish as the wm, you shouldn't have
any further worries...

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