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Phil Hannent
Asked: 2010-09-23 12:43:01 +0800 CST

How do I hide the drive icons of my other partitions from the desktop?

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I have the hard disk icon for each of my partitions on my Gnome desktop.

I want a clean look, how do I hide them?

10.04 icons

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    1. Type "gconf-editor" into a terminal window to run the Configuration Editor.

    2. In the left hand tree, browse to apps / nautilus / desktop

    3. In the right hand side, untick the "volumnes_visible" option.

    Close the configuration editor. You may have to restart for the changes to take effect.

    You can find more information on How-To Geek.

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  2. Also take a look at Ubuntu Tweak. It's got a lot of settings that are in gconf-editor in a nice gui setup.

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  3. To Hide Selected Partitions

    If you wish to prevent certain partitions or drives appearing on the desktop, you can create a udev rule, for example /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules:

    KERNEL=="sdaX", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"
KERNEL=="sdaY", ENV{UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE}="1"

    Would show all partitions with the exception of sdaX and sdaY on your desktop.

    Notice, if you are using udisk2 the above will not work, due to the UDISKS_PRESENTATION_HIDE no longer being supported, instead you must use UDISKS_IGNORE as follows

    KERNEL=="sdaX", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"
KERNEL=="sdaY", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

    This answer was culled from: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce4#Hide_Selected_Partitions and though it's Arch and xfce it applies since Ubuntu uses /etc/udev/rules.d And udisks is installed as part of gvfs if I'm not mistaken. :-).

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  4. ailurus which can be installed from this ppa makes it easy. Once you install it with

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ailurus/ppa && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ailurus
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