Re: desktop samba mount icons

[Frank Worsley <fworsley shaw ca>]

Until a way to hide them is implemented, I suggest you just move them
below your panel so you don't see them anymore. A quick and dirty way to
do it, but it works.

- Frank


On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 08:47, Fred McDavid wrote:
> Alex,
> 
> Actually, I'm using uid and gid, not user, but I guess it amounts to the
> same issue.
> 
> I'm not so willing to change that...it's a nice set up for me.
> 
> For what it's worth, I'd like to suggest that you should either be able
> to disable this feature or at least allow the mounts to reside in a
> "Network Neighborhood"-type folder rather than putting them all on the
> desktop.  Really, any idea that would prevent the desktop clutter would
> be great.
> 
> Other than this one issue, and to try to keep from sounding whiny, I'd
> like to thank you and everyone working on gnome for the work you've
> done...unix is a much tamer beast these days.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Fred
> 
> On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 11:36, Alex Graveley wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 14:05, Fred McDavid wrote:
> > > Is there any way to opt-out of the samba mount desktop icons?  On my
> > > machine at work, I maintain 20+ samba mounts all the time.  This causes
> > > Nautilus to fill my desktop with drive icons and my home directory with
> > > files about the drive icons.
> > 
> > The quick way to get rid of these is to make the mounts you don't want
> > showing up be non-user mountable (by removing the "user" option from
> > /etc/fstab).  Nautilus only shows mounts the user can control on the
> > desktop and in the Disks menu.
> > 
> > Other than this, nautilus doesn't have a way of hiding them, since the
> > files are always recreated when nautilus restarts.
> > 
> > -Alex
> > 
> > -- 
> >  on the canvass of life, incompetence is my paintbrush.
> > 
> 
> 
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