aze Posted January 21, 2003 Report Share Posted January 21, 2003 Hi all! How do I remove cd/floopy icon from desktop? I did that: /home/user/.gnome-desktop/cdrom --> /home/user/.gnome-desktop/.cdrom then I return to desktop and everything is fine (the icons has desapeared from there) but when I re-logon the annoying icons are back there. How do I permanently remove those icons from gnome desktop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 I was just hanging out on efnet in #mandrake and this very question came up. And my fiance dares ay I waste time on irc. HA I say. They went to cd to /home/user/.gnome-desktop and they swear they stayed deleted. Did you try it as root and delete them from your user desktop?Or is that my windows background showing up again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted January 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 Really, doesn't matter what I do with the files at /home/user/.gnome-desktop in the next nogin gnome restore those annoying icons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted January 22, 2003 Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 I ripped this right off of Dolsons site (http://icculus.org/~dolson/mdkxp/). He's talking about KDE but perhaps it's the same process for Gnome. It's long so hold on tight. There are two new features in Mandrake 9.0 that some users may really like a lot. I really hate them. So, I found a way to disable them. This tutorial will cover removing the Removable Media icon that reappears on your desktop every time you start KDE. Open a console. Type in su and hit Enter. Now you will be asked for the root password, so put it in and hit Enter. Next, using your favorite editor (I'll assume Kate, as it's got a nice easy-to-use GUI about it) you must edit a config file. So, type in kate /usr/bin/kdesktop-links and hit Enter. Go to line 17 or so, and you'll see something like this: if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.directory ]; then cp -f /usr/share/mdk/kde/directory-desktop $HOME/Desktop/.directory fi # Removable media If you see that, then great. You're editing the right file. Now, add in these lines that are in red: if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.directory ]; then cp -f /usr/share/mdk/kde/directory-desktop $HOME/Desktop/.directory fi # Set MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC: # # 0 - Enable Removable Media icon # 1 - Disable Removable Media icon MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC=1 if [ $MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC == 0 ]; then # START MDKXP IF STATEMENT # Removable media So as you can see, if you set that variable to zero (MDKXP_DISABLE_DYNAMIC=0), then you would have the Removable Media icon when you restart KDE. But if you set it to 1, then the icon won't reappear once you delete it. We need to make one final edit. Scroll down to about line 134 or so. You should see something like this: fi if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab ]; then md5sum /etc/fstab > $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab Now, add in this extra line that is in red: fi fi # END MDKXP IF STATEMENT if [ ! -e $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab ]; then md5sum /etc/fstab > $HOME/Desktop/.md5sumetcfstab Save the file and exit. Delete the Removable Media icon from the desktop. Restart KDE, and that annoying Removable Media icon won't come back to life. One thing to be noted is that the line numbers are as found in the KDE version included with Mandrake 9.0 by default. If you upgrade KDE, the line numbers may change, and the icons will come back. You will need to do this tutorial again if you install a newer KDE version, and you will have to find the proper lines yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aze Posted January 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2003 it dodn't work with gnome :-( I already googled it but nothing says how to remove permanently them! And I bet that nobody is caring about this little bit problem. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shakti Posted March 15, 2003 Report Share Posted March 15, 2003 you can always disable supermount and then the icons go bye bye..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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