Re: Permanently removing all desktop icons under gnome 2.0

[Gnome User <gnome yadda-yadda-yadda org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 01:31:36PM +1000, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 13:07, Gnome User wrote:
> > On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 02:43:39PM -0300, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 May 2003, Gnome User wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I like a completely icon-less desktop, and therefore, I'd like to
> > > 
> > > Unset /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop (with GConf editor, for
> > > example)
> > 
> > Well, now that I've done this and used my setup for a little while,
> > there is a new problem that I need to solve:
> > 
> > Unsetting the show_desktop property indeed got rid of the "Trash"
> > and "user's Home" icons.  But now, there are no desktop menus at
> > all.  Apparently, each and every bit of desktop functionality was
> > disabled in order to make those two icons to disappear.
> 
> What about changing the window manager to Sawfish so that you have SOME
> menu functionality whilst at the desktop? Metacity doesn't like root
> menus...(it's a very dumb window manager...still dunno why it's being
> used - but that's my bit of hell)

Thanks.

Using sawmill is indeed a bit better, although still not ideal.

Is there no way to just tell Gnome to get rid of all of those icons
and still have its other desktop functionality enabled?

Is my only option to put a "/bin/rm -f ~/.gnome-desktop/*" in my
.profile, after all?

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