[SOLVED]e17/gnome media started displaying on desktop.

LeoSolaris · 2008-09-01 00:51:59

I deactivated the desktop media display in gnome with gconf-editor, and recently installed e17.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to disable the media desktop icons that have suddenly reappeared in gnome (and incidentally in e17, too.)

I found it in the e17 config menu. now I feel a bit foolish.

Last edited by LeoSolaris (2008-09-01 01:07:24)

skottish · 2008-09-01 01:06:55

Would you happen to be using pcmanfm? If so, go to Edit--> Preferences--> Desktop and uncheck 'Manage the desktop and show file icons'.

LeoSolaris · 2008-09-01 01:08:48

Na... It was something to do with the desktop icons that are fairly new in e17.

Thanks though!

skottish · 2008-09-01 01:11:28

LeoSolaris wrote:

Na... It was something to do with the desktop icons that are fairly new in e17.
Thanks though!

Being an E17 user, I'm curious about this. What new desktop icon thing?

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LeoSolaris · 2008-09-01 18:26:54

skottish wrote:

Being an E17 user, I'm curious about this. What new desktop icon thing?

It's probably not "new", but it didn't display media/partitions on the desktop last time I tried e17. In my research on it, all of the notes referred to icons on the e17 desktop being "new", so I ran with it. I would bet that either something didn't load right the first time I tried e17, or the defaults changed slightly.

For some reason, I have always found icons make the desktop look cluttered, which is strange for me, because my real desktop is constantly covered with stuff.

E17 is a good deal of fun, and I may start using it more often than gnome. It is interesting that the setting in one cross over into the other. The reason I went back to gnome the first time was because I didn't have the time to configure e17, and I had already tweaked gnome all to heck. (Plus, I was going through a "try every WM or DE in Ubuntu's repos" phase.)

skottish · 2008-09-01 18:30:40

LeoSolaris wrote:

For some reason, I have always found icons make the desktop look cluttered, which is strange for me, because my real desktop is constantly covered with stuff.

It's funny, the only thing I have on my E17 desktop is a transparent TClock module (in an IBox) on the bottom right corner of my left-most monitor. There's never anything else there. I love how easy E17 makes it to be simple and beautiful at the same time.

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LeoSolaris · 2008-09-02 13:03:52

I agree with ya there. I have been poking at e17 off and on, and I do enjoy it. I rather like gnome too, but it is slightly more work to get interesting looks. Your's sounds like an interesting arrangement. I haven't had the time, or spare cash, to branch out into dual monitor setups.

I have found fluxbox and fvwm to be perfect for those times when I just need a quick system up with a couple of basics, like a browser of a real fast WYSIWYG text editor. (sorta like Asus's 15-sec embedded distro) I am planning to put one of them on top of a near core Arch install, and compare it to Puppy, just for kicks.

The only one to really drive me nuts is KDE, and ya, I know there is a pretty good sized contingent of hardcore KDE fans here on Arch. Something about the way it is organized bothers me, but I just can't put my finger on what it is precisely.

Wow... at least we are running tangent to the topic in a solved thread.

Last edited by LeoSolaris (2008-09-02 13:05:18)

bgc1954 · 2008-09-02 16:08:53

Just a note in case any other "old" e17 users look at this thread, I also noticed when playing around with another "nameless" distro and installed e17, media icons appeared on the desktop. I never had this happen in Arch and wondered what the heck was going on since I also do not like an icon-cluttered desktop. After some googling and searching in the Arch forums I saw a post that mentioned the config panel->Hal icon settings. When I looked in my Arch setup I couldn't even find such a thing. After some poking around I found that I didn't even have the File Manager module loaded and that is where the HAL icons enable/disable option is located.

Gee...you learn something new every day.

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#1 2008-09-01 00:51:59

[SOLVED]e17/gnome media started displaying on desktop.

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