On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:59 -0700, Darryl wrote: > How does one prevent FC6 from putting filesystems on the desktop? I > can't seem to figure out what mechanism is putting them there. eg: /u > filesystem (/dev/sdb1) is showing up on desktops and shouldn't be. I'll > also want to prevent an external USB drive from showing up on the > desktop too. Thanks. Configuration Editor -> apps -> nautilus -> desktop: uncheck volumes_visible Or, from the command line: gconftool-2 --set --type=boolean /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible true