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urcindalo

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] I want to remove only the Floppy icon from desktop, not USB pendrives'

Thanks for reading this. I'm new to Xfce. I'm a KDE 3.5 user since 2005.

As a part of a teaching project I've created a lightweight virtual machine with VMWare Workstation 6.5.2. My host is Gentoo 64 bit (KDE 3.5.10) and my guest Gentoo i686 (Xfce 4.6.1).

The virtual machine has no floppy at all:

$ cat MVirQuim.vmx | grep floppy
floppy0.present = "FALSE"

There's also no floppy entry in the virtual machine's /etc/fstab

However, I always get a Floppy icon in my xfce desktop if I choose to show the icons for removable drives. I want icons for USB pendrives to appear on desktop, so deselecting this is not an option for me.

What can I do to remove the Floppy icon from my xfce desktop? I don't mind getting my hands dirty by editing system files, if that's the only solution.

Thanks in advance.

urcindalo

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Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] I want to remove only the Floppy icon from desktop, not USB pendrives'

I answer myself.

What I did was to disable the floppy drives from within the virtual machine's BIOS. It is not enough to eliminate it from its hardware definition because HAL was detecting the unit at boot time as a part of the virtual hardware.