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Drone4four

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Registered: 2011-05-22

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[Solved] disabling all desktop icons

How do I disable all desktop icons?

On GNOME, for example, to disable icons, all you have to do is runn gconf-editor at the terminal and then navigate to apps-nautilus-preferences and uncheck the "show_desktop" option. This disables all icons on your desktop.

How do I do that in XFCE?  Please keep in mind that I know how to remove Home, Filesystem, Trash and Removeable Devices via Desktop Settings.   I'm trying remove all icons.

I'm running XFCE 4.8 on Ubuntu natty 11.04.

Last edited by Drone4four (2011-05-22 03:22:11)

syntr

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Registered: 2011-05-21

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

Right-click on the desktop and choose "Desktop Settings". Go to the Icons tab and uncheck all the default icons.

Also, welcome I've been using Xubuntu for only four days now because I got sick of Unity, seems like a lot of people are switching too

Drone4four

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

syntr: I wasn't clear enough in my initial post.  When I said  I know how to remove Home, Filesystem, Trash and Removeable Devices, I meant that I already found out how to remove those icons via Desktop Settings as you suggested.   What I'm trying to do is remove /all/ icons, like my documents and media files.

syntr

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

syntr: I wasn't clear enough in my initial post.  When I said  I know how to remove Home, Filesystem, Trash and Removeable Devices, I meant that I already found out how to remove those icons via Desktop Settings as you suggested.   What I'm trying to do is remove /all/ icons, like my documents and media files.

Umm, why wouldn't you just move them out of the ~/Desktop folder?

Drone4four

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

I'd really rather not do that, syntr,  because my home folder also has many files which I am used to always being in my home folder.  It's a matter of familiarity.  I am familiar with the hundred or so files being in my home folder and the hundred or so files in  ~/Desktop. 

Gnome can disable all icons. And I am sure that XFCE has this feature too. 

syntr, you pointed out that people running the latest version of Ubuntu are switching their window managers b/c of Unity.   In my view, Gnome 2.32 will be obsolete soon and I don't like Gnome 3.0 so I am sticking with XFCE. 

One way or another I am going to find out how to disable all desktop icons in XFCE.

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

Set icon type to None in the desktop settings.

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Drone4four

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Re: [Solved] disabling all desktop icons

Thank you Nick.  That is exactly what I was looking for.