On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 20:36 -0700, Darryl wrote: > How do I prevent filesystems/folders from showing up on user's gnome > desktops? I have /u being mounted out of /etc/fstab at boot time but do > not want it on the user desktop. Other filesystems such as /var and > /boot are somehow excluded so there must be some kind of configuration > file to adjust this behavior but I can't seem to locate it :-(. What's "/u"? How do you mount it? Here, all that shows up on the desktop are three icons for opening "my computer" (opens a browser starting at /), the user's home (opens starting in ~/), a trashcan (~/.Trash/). The desktop displays what's held in ~/Desktop/ (if it's empty, and it is by default, nothing else shows). And, if and when I plug in a USB flash drive, or insert a disc into the CD drive, an icon pops up on the desktop. If you don't want any icons on the desktop, there's controls for that. You can use gconf-editor to turn off displaying them on the Gnome desktop (look in its /apps/nautilus/desktop/ tree branch for the the things I mentioned above, and there's a /apps/nautilus/preferences has a show_desktop option to stop using Nautilus to display the desktop). I don't recall the tip for disabling it in KDE. There's another one, that I can't remember at the moment, regarding whether removable devices appear on the desktop. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-33.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
