From:	 Bruce Ide <ide@us.ibm.com>
To:	 lwn@lwn.net
Subject: Removing icons on root Windows
Date:	 17 May 2001 12:48:53 -0400

Here's how you remove those icons for Gnome:

Click the tool box icon on your panel. That will bring up gnomecc (The
Control Center.)

Locate "Session Properties and Startup Programs." It's all the way at
the bottom for me.

Click on that and then in the dialog that comes up, select "Startup
Programs".

Select "Browse currently running programs."

Locate GMC (Or Nautilus) and select "Remove."

Select "OK"

Log out of gnome and elect to save your session. I don't believe this is
actually necessary but better safe than sorry right?

Your desktop icons should now be history and you will probably notice
that your mouse buttons work differently on the root window now.

-- 
Bruce Ide / Boulder
There is no problem so large that it can't be solved by killing a user's
process and deleting his files.