From:	 Spider <spider@bahnhof.se>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: to: Michael J. Hammel (root-icons in Gnome)
Date:	 Tue, 22 May 2001 04:24:45 +0200

mmhm, Well, its actually quite easy to rid yourself of the root-icons in 
Gnome. pop up a Gmc / Nautilus window (whichever is managing your 
desktop) then Execute it (there's an "Exit" in the menu;)

next, launch a console, try for gmc,
   --nowindows                      No windows opened at startup
   --nodesktop                      No desktop icons
( according to gmc --help)
and with Nautilus it is
  --no-desktop
and nautilus -q to kill it (or the cleanup script)

after that, just tell gnome to save your session and it ought to be nice 
and clean.


Another "hint" is to disable all those pesky icons on menus, drops 
loading time a whole bit for most things ;)

mmhm, well, thats' about it from me, over and out and HTH.

//Spider