On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 11:02 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 15:46:27 +0200 > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> dijo: > >>Where are the settings to get rid of 'Computer', 'User's home' and >>especially the 'Wastebasket' on the GNOME /Desktop? >> >>I never use the 'Wastebasket' and I don't like other icons either on >>the /Desptop. > > On my Fedora 14 computer with Gnome 2.32.0 the setting is in > Applications > System Tools > Configuration Editor. In the > Configuration Editor window go to apps > nautilus > preferences and > uncheck the box for show_desktop.
If you do that you'll also disable right-clicking on the desktop. As others have said, you can selectively remove the default icons, in apps/nautilus/icon_view. (And my other question, about what's in ~/Desktop, was irrelevant; that only affects things other than the default icons. Sorry for the misdirection.) Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTimcZFpOOn-y86WipR=1xer6b3d...@mail.gmail.com
