The 02.11.12 at 08:28, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I was uncanny. When I first logged it, there they were, half a dozen icons. I removed them, exited saving the session, and logged in again: good, they dissapeared. When I rebooted and logged in again, there they were, back there in the desktop.
That's because drives are automounted at boot time, so merely logging out won't help. Once it's mounted, it's mounted, unless you unmount it - merely removing the icon from the desktop won't do that!
I know; but regardless of the mounted state, I just want the icons to disappear. I mean, I could want those partitions mounted, but I do not need those icons displayed, I just want a clear desktop. I can not remove the icons, unly unmount them.
SuSE assumes that you will want to be able to access windows partitions from linux, so automounts them. Putting "noauto" in fstab lets you take control of the behaviour :-)
Glad it worked!
Yes, for the moment :-) Further on, I may mount certain partition at boot time, but I do not want it displayed in the desktop as an Icon. If I want a file, I know how to get it without that extra "help". I mean, I just want control of my desktop! ;-) I think I had this problem previously (sus 7.3), and I had to disable nautilus from drawing my desktop at all, using maybe gmc for the task (not sure of the name) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson