You sure you tried toggling gconf-editor /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible?
James On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 16:31 -0700, John Beck wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
