Anyone know how to get rid of the 'Removeable media' icon from Mandrake 9.0 permanently? Trashing it only lasts til the next login.

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There was already a thread on this somewhere on these forums. I wrote a tiny script that deleted it and posted it in there. If you can find the thread, you can use the script You should save it as a file, make it executable and save it to the Autostart part of KDE, so that whenever KDE starts the icon is removed.

Thanks Thymox. I was hoping to find whatever mechanism that creates the link and stop it/remove it/hit it with a stick etc but thats the next best thing.
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Yeah, it is a bit of a workaround, but it works! I only recently found out about that annoying icon - I don't use KDE so I never noticed it! I only discovered it when I was setting up one of my other computers to be my office workhorse for when I am on teaching placement... I set the computer up so that both myself and my mother can use it - I will get my family to use Linux! - and I thought that having individual icons on the desktop for each device was a more sensible idea than that silly thing! I couldn't find where it was generated (not that I really looked that hard at all - I am quite lazy when it comes to stuff like that ), so I just whipped it up. Since it is only a subdirectory off ~/Desktop, it wasn't too hard to remove it.

Glad I could help.