On 16 Sep 2009, at 16:29, Frank Middleton wrote: > On 09/15/09 02:19 AM, Hugh O'Hare wrote: > >> You can, this is just what most people expect a desktop to do/have. >> Personally I have no icons on the desktop at all. It just takes a >> few seconds to update with gconftool or gconf-editor. > > Sounds cool. Where are these tools?
gconftool-2 is a CLI configuration tool that's installed by default. The GUI version is gconf-editor, for which you'll need to install SUNWgnome-config-editor. There are basically two ways you can hide your desktop icons: 1) Tell nautilus (the file manager) not to draw the desktop at all. For this, uncheck the /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop preference in gconf-editor. If you use this method, you will also lose the desktop right-click menu, and nothing placed in ~/Desktop will show on your desktop until you toggle the preference again. 2) Tell nautilus not to draw certain system icons on the desktop -- you can set the visibility of the Computer, Home, Network, Trash, and mounted volume icons individually, using the *_icon_visible gconf settings that live under /apps/nautilus/desktop. If you take approach 2, you'll also have to delete any additional files from your ~/Desktop directory that you don't want to show up on your desktop. Specifically, OpenSolaris currently (and, to be honest, somewhat obnoxiously) attempts to recreate the Add More Software, Register OpenSolaris, and Start Here icons on the desktop every time you log in if they don't exist. You can prevent this by removing the opensolaris-icons-copy startup item from your session, using the gnome- session-properties GUI. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
