Re: Quick Question

[Jürg Billeter <j bitron ch>]

On Son, 2004-05-16 at 22:11, Ed Griffin wrote:
> Sorry if this has been discussed before a thousand times but I am new to 
> this list.  How does nautilus determine which file system icons are 
> displayed on the desktop?  Currently for whatever reason /home /usr /opt 
> and /var are all being displayed on my desktop.  I would like to tweak 
> this so that they are NOT being displayed.  I haven't seen this behavior 
> before, but I just recently installed SuSE 9.1 with Gnome 2.4.1 and 
> Nautilus 2.4.2.

IIRC nautilus shows the volumes which are user-mountable i.e. the fstab
entries with the option "user" or "users" specified. Normally partitions
as /home, /usr, /opt or /var are not user-mountable, so they won't show
up on the desktop. You should probably check your fstab.

Jürg