Jza Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 I am using gconf-editor to hide icons from the desktop. I DO want to have icons but not the devices/system icons on my desktop. I just want to put 3 costumized icons. Can anyone point me out how to take icons out of the GNOME desktop. Also I want the gnome-panel to NOT load, when starting. I want to see just a clean desktop with 1 icon created by me. Anyway to make this happen? [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted July 7, 2005 Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 there are a lot of ways to accomplish this. one possibility is to move the icons to the trash. another one is to hide them. you can e.g. change the icon size to 25%, then move the icons to the lower right area and changing to e.g. 75% icon size. thus they will stay outside of your desktop. you can hack the gnome files if you want but that is not necessary imho. with the gnome-panel: simply remove it or set it to auto-hide or give the panel e.g. only one icon. no menu, no other stuff. there are dozens of ways to accomlish what you want to have. just try some possibilities and take a look at the gnome documentation at gnome.org. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jza Posted July 7, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2005 Not very functional, I want to create a kiosk interface so for that I want the actual session to be configured so that the user use just the icons on the screen. hiding them like is not very suitable. I want to know if gconfd can help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted July 8, 2005 Report Share Posted July 8, 2005 (edited) What device/sys icons are on the desktop? Open the home dir on the user and create a .hidden file inside the Desktop dir, put them in there, and try to change the permissions so that the user can't open the dir but gnome still can. start gnome-session-properties>Current Session tab and remove the gnome-panel and save>rt-click the desktop and open a terminal and run gnome-session-save. The panel will not run now, but the terminal will so you'll need to run the gnome-session-properties again and remove the gnome-terminal...or something like that...if you think it through there's probably a cleaner/faster way oh, and no, gconf-editor won't be much help here, except for maybe apps>magicdev to stop the auto stuff with devices (may or may not still work though.....it used to) gconftool-2 might be useful...devel uses it, but then, they know what to tell it to do be verwy verwy carefwool wif it here's an example gconftool-2 --type=string --set /apps/metacity/general/theme name_of_theme it's the more powerful commandline for gconf-editor Edited July 8, 2005 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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