Re: Some questions

[Ben FrantzDale <bfrantzdale hmc edu>]

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:34, Johan Svedberg wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have just started using GNOME and as usual there are some questions
> that arises... :)
> 
> First, I would like GNOME not to set the background at all since I set
> that with xsetroot, how would I do this?
> 
> Second, I don't like those 2 default icons (home and trash) on the
> desktop, how can I get rid of them?

I believe you can either have GNOME (nautilus) draw the desktop,
complete with icons, or you can have it not be set, leaving the X root
window showing through which prevents you from having gnome icons on the
desktop at all. However, I think if you use a terminal and "rm" to
remove the home and trash files, then they wont be visable in Nautilus.

> Someone said something about apps -> nautilus -> preferences ->
> show_desktop in GConf editor, but I don't have show_desktop, I only have
> 3 options there (start_with_statusbar, start_with_toolbar and
> start_with_locationbar).

You are correct that it isn't there in gnome2.2. However I'm not sure
where that option is. I'm pretty sure it is an option, though.


-- Ben

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> 
> Regards,