Calum Benson wrote: > > 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. If you talk this approach, you could hit this bug,
http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=9528 Not a pleasant one, very nasty if you don't have multi-core machine. -Ghee > > 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. > >
