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Hanynowsky
Asked: 2012-03-29 06:36:45 +0800 CST

How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04 and later?

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In 11.10 Using Configuration editor, one used to be able to edit a boolean parameter named : Desktop_Show This allowed to hide/show all desktop icons. This latter was removed in 12.04. Config Editor in 12.04

Someone, knows how to hide desktop icons automatically?

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  1. Best Answer

    It's in gsettings (& dconf-editor), to do from cli use 

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

    From gui open dconf-editor (install dconf-tools) as in screen

    dconf-editor

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  2. The MyUnity application (in the software center) has a lot of useful features for customizing Unity, including the ability to hide desktop icons. The newest version supports 12.04.

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  3. If you are using the Gnome desktop environment then

    1. Open the Tweak tool
    2. Click on the Desktop tab
    3. Toggle the "Icons on Desktop" button to off.

    Tweak Tool settings menu

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