wst50 Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Running Fedora 8. Trying to go minimal on icons, but I have a load of mounted drives. How can I make it so that they aren't shown on the desktop? I saw some stuff using gconf or something but it doesn't work for some reason for me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daylene Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 You could try this guide. Its for Ubuntu 7.10, but the commands should be able to carry over to Fedora. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j79zlr Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 I thought Ubuntu was supposed to be user friendly. That guide is definitely overly complicated. Open up the Menu > System Tools > Configuration Editor > apps > nautilus > desktop and uncheck "volumes_visible" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wst50 Posted December 11, 2007 Author Share Posted December 11, 2007 It doesn't say 'Configurtion Editor' within the System tools menu. The guide for ubuntu doesn't work either 0.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KitCh Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Press Alt-F2 And enter "gconf-editor" Apps > Nautilus > Desktop > Volumes Visible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikey Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Thanks for this ! .. I'd just been musing over this very problem in Linux Mint ! .. sorted now .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foub Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 For Ubuntu users who want to remove the mounted drives icons from the desktop there is a util called Ubuntu-Tweak which has this as one of its options. Ubuntu-Tweak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edgarinventor Posted May 8, 2008 Share Posted May 8, 2008 Press Alt-F2And enter "gconf-editor" Apps > Nautilus > Desktop > Volumes Visible Just took the time to say - Thanks, too! Positive feedback, you know... Bookmarked this Site, with the new Hardy, it seems a bare necessity! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CactuzJak Posted May 9, 2008 Share Posted May 9, 2008 this proved to be a useful thread, never really thought to look how to remove the icons, but they did annoy me. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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