Hi!
There are few things that bug the hell out of me in GNOME -- it wount allow me to remove certain object off desktop -- Trash, link to HDD, link to my home directory... that is prety annoying -- I like my desktop to be clean and empty... i do not see Trans and others when I do go desktop folder form console... is there any way to get rid of these icons?

thank you!

Go to the Main Menu> Applications> System Tools and open the Configuration Editor (it would help if you'd said what distro you're using as it's on a different menu on Mandrake and Fedora). Click apps> nautilus> desktop then in the right hand window uncheck the boxes next to the variables computer_icon_visible , trash_icon_visible , home_icon_visible

The only way I ever got them away is by letting gnome-velocity handle the desktop. Gnome-velocity is a file-manager, and there is somewhere in gnome-velocity an option to let it handle the desktop. However, it caused some strange instability somehow, so I let gnome handle the desktop again. You can try it, but be warned!

hey, that's much better! (sorry, read Andrew's reply after writing my own reply)

Argh, keys! One of the many things I dislike in windows . But thanks from me too, I always wanted to know this.

Corien

Except mine question is the opposite.

I am running RH9 and did something a while ago in Gnome to remove ALL desktop icons! It was an option I found somewhere that said whether or not to use Nautilus for the desktop and for some reason or another I thought it would help speed up my system some! (Come to find out I needed to throw together a much bigger swap file, but that's another story )

When I selected to not us Nautilus, I also lost the ability to right-click and pull up any menu, and I haven't been able to find anything under Preferences or System Settings that relates to using Nautilus as the desktop! I tried the apps> nautilus> desktop you suggested but unfortunately I do not have the deskop option!

I have no problem being restated to the default setup, and I see somebody optioned to delete the .gnome directory but I'm a little hesitant about going that drastic of a route (I'm still very much a newbie).

Any suggestions would be very welcomed. If there are no "simple means" then I guess it's time to roll up my sleeves and take the plunge on something a little more drastic! (at least it will be a learning experience)

~Lu

http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2437 Is that what you're talking about? The option I described above was only introduced in Gnome 2.4

Yes, I believe that was the topic I found a little while after posting the one here. I managed to get it fixed by around 5am.

It was under /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop .

One of the confusing aspects is something I don't know if anybody else has happening, but when I'm connected to the internet (via dial-up), Nautilus doesn't want to open any windows! Sometimes gedit also does not want to open up. Once I get offline, then my computer goes crazy opening up all of my requests at once!

And since I was trying to get Nautilus to work for my desktop, naturally it wasn't going to work until I got offline as well. When I logged off, all of a sudden a "slew" of icons appeared on my desktop! Then it was a simple matter to change the settings from showing my home directory, which cleaned it up nicely.

Thanks again!

~Lu