[opensuse] How do I remove stale destop device icons in gnome desktop?
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The gnome desktop insists on displaying icons in the desktop for partitions I once had but Ino longer have. The "delete" entry in properties is greyed out even for root. I searched the whole filesystem for any *.desktop file named as one of them, or containing the name of one of them: nothing found. I don't know where on earth it is getting those names from, but I want them out, and I don't want new ones to appear. How do I delete those damm icons? [...] I found references in ".nautilus/metafiles/x~desktop:%2F%2F%2F.xml". I exited the session, edited the file, and logged in: no effect. I tried another time removing the entire .nautilus/* directory: no effect, the damm icons remain in the desktop; and of course, they are not in the "Desktop/" directory. And something recreated the "x-nautilus-desktop:%2F%2F%2F.xml" directory. - -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHf4vDtTMYHG2NR9URAlSMAJ4mvwoOcpAMh/+ME+vel1fepUcFGQCgiYQo RJt3McQdGsm2OxvUlYb52jY= =eP1f -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 14:52 +0100, Carlos E. R. wrote:
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Hi,
The gnome desktop insists on displaying icons in the desktop for partitions I once had but Ino longer have. The "delete" entry in properties is greyed out even for root. I searched the whole filesystem for any *.desktop file named as one of them, or containing the name of one of them: nothing found. I don't know where on earth it is getting those names from, but I want them out, and I don't want new ones to appear.
How do I delete those damm icons?
Are they listed in /etc/fstab still? -JP -- JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com> Novell, Inc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2008-01-10 at 11:24 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
The gnome desktop insists on displaying icons in the desktop for partitions I once had but Ino longer have. The "delete" entry in properties is greyed out even for root. I searched the whole filesystem for any *.desktop file named as one of them, or containing the name of one of them: nothing found. I don't know where on earth it is getting those names from, but I want them out, and I don't want new ones to appear.
How do I delete those damm icons?
Are they listed in /etc/fstab still?
Yes and no. In the fstab I have one at "/mnt/usb/apin/dos", and in the desktop I have one named "dos", but it is a diferent "dos", beacuse in properties it has the volume label of another disk (160_root), a partition that no longer exists in the fstab (but it does in the partition table): it is currently my root partition: nimrodel:~ # mount -l /dev/hdd6 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,acl,user_xattr) [160_root] I have other entries in my desktop named 'E', 'F', 'uno', 'Kingston'... all of them refering to the same disk labeled '160_root'. This is wrong... [...] Ok, the label shown is that of the root device on all icons. Ok, if I try to mount one of them, I see that they refer to diferent volumes of those named in properties, that do in fact exist in the fstab. Then, if I put a disk in fstab, gnome will put an icon for it? How can I tell it not to? This is idiotic: half my desktop is filled with those icons I never use. Clicking on them first says unable to mount, see details, and if I click properties I see that it is counting the number of files there, but it never opens the nautilus folder showing them. Useless and a waste of precious desktop space! I want to delete them from my desktop. How? If I try to delete them I get permission denied. By whom? This is MY comptuter and MY desktop and my /home/user/whatever ! Idiotic. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHhsustTMYHG2NR9URAiA8AJwMZxJWjPOzKW30tvPU/it6UVDoHgCeLDMv JJgNsLwK4FgN2KNvlTHRVWY= =Y5af -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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