On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 17:40, Andrew Robinson wrote:
Gnone has put icons on my desktop for various mounted partitions. ... How do I control what Gnome puts on my desktop?
Your /etc/fstab most likely has the user or owner options specified for
those filesystems. If users are allowed to mount/umount then they
obviously need a way to do so and thus the desktop items are created. To remove the desktop and disks submenu items remove the user or owner
options.
Also related to controlling what GNOME displays: Nautilus (file manager and desktop) will hide files, per folder, listed in a .hidden file. You can still see the files through file selection dialogs.
I want the filesystems mounted. I just don't want icons for them on my desktop. When I want to get to files on the partions, I can do so through the filemanager.
You did give me one big clue. The desktop is Nautilus rather than Gnome (duh!). I found a set of xml files under the .nautilus/metafiles directory that seem to reference the desktop icons. However, the heirarchy of files does not jump out at me (probably another duh!). Can someone point me to some information that will allow me to control the icons on the desktop?
Below is a list of the files. Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew%2FDesktop.xml file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew%2F.gnome-desktop.xml file:%2F%2F%2Fhome%2Fandrew.xml file:%2F%2F%2Fhome.xml file:%2F%2F%2Fmnt%2Fhdb7%2FDownloads%2FFedora%2FWine.xml file:%2F%2F%2Fmnt%2Fhdb7%2FDownloads%2FFedora.xml file:%2F%2F%2F.xml preferences:%2F%2F%2F.xml x-nautilus-desktop:%2F%2F%2F.xml
