I have a Gnome problem that I have not been able to solve. I don't want to see any icons on my desktop (unless ~/Desktop has something in it, in which case I should see icons for those things, but I usually keep it empty). I know how to disable the default Computer/Documents/Network icons, but for some reason, nautilus insists on showing me an icon for every (non-dot) file in my home directory. It does not matter if I use gconf-editor to toggle apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir or not as the behavior does not change. Same is true of running gnome-cleanup: the behavior persists.
And here is where is gets weirder. I logged out, logged in failsafe and ran gnome-cleanup, then did an `scp -rp` from my home machine of each directory that gnome-cleanup had blown away, then logged back into Gnome. I saw the minor configuration differences that I expected (my home and office work- stations are configured very similarly but not identically), but still Nautilus showed an icon for every file in my home dir. But at home it doesn't do that: it behaves like I want, showing me icons for files in ~/Desktop when any are there, and nothing otherwise. And both of these boxes are running the same OS: snv_95, with Gnome 2.22.2 . I've tried everything I can think of under gconf-editor, and tried various Google searches, all to no avail. Are there any experts here who can help me? Thanks... -- John http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck
