[sclug] Gnome 2.4 hiding desktop icons

[lug at assursys.co.uk]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Tim Sutton wrote:

> Hi all
> 
> I decided to install Gnome 2.4 the other day on my Debian box to see how the 
> 'other half' lives (I am a self confessed kde junkie :-). It looks pretty 
> nice barring a couple of niggles (like ok defaulting to button on right 
> rather than left :-( and the gnome terminal being nowhere near as nice as 
> konsole). One thing I cant see how to do is how to hide the desktop icons - I 
> like a 'clean desktop'. I suppose I could just chmod a-rwx ~/Desktop but 
> there must be a neater way? 

Stop Nautilus from drawing the desktop; foo's
Home->Edit->Preferences->Desktop & Trash->[Untick] Use Nautiluus to draw the
desktop.

> Cheers

Alex.
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