my documents icon lxde

[0day]

how do I delete the My Documents icon from the desktop in LXDE?

[Neal ManBear]

how do I delete the My Documents icon from the desktop in LXDE?

Open file manager superuser mode > lxdecc > system tab. Navigate to /home/<you>/Desktop. Do you see the icon? Or you may see a my documents.desktop file. Right click on it and choose delete from the menu that opens.

No guarantee it will go away, though.

[parnote]

I'm curious Neal ... wouldn't adding the line NoShow=True to the end of the .desktop file also hide the file, and make the entire action reversible in the future, just by deleting or commenting out that line?

parnote

[Neal ManBear]

I'm curious Neal ... wouldn't adding the line NoShow=True to the end of the .desktop file also hide the file, and make the entire action reversible in the future, just by deleting or commenting out that line?

parnote

The line would be NotShowIn=name-of-DE; Sometimes OnlyShowIn=name-of-DE; is used. Simply removing the "Not" would reverse it.

[parnote]

I'm curious Neal ... wouldn't adding the line NoShow=True to the end of the .desktop file also hide the file, and make the entire action reversible in the future, just by deleting or commenting out that line?

parnote

The line would be NotShowIn=name-of-DE; Sometimes OnlyShowIn=name-of-DE; is used. Simply removing the "Not" would reverse it.

Thanks Neal. That was the line I was thinking of, and was trying to do it from memory alone. I appreciate the correction.

So would this work with the Documents folder's .desktop file in LXDE?

parnote

[Redeemed-05]

how do I delete the My Documents icon from the desktop in LXDE?

Open file manager superuser mode > lxdecc > system tab. Navigate to /home/<you>/Desktop. Do you see the icon? Or you may see a my documents.desktop file. Right click on it and choose delete from the menu that opens.

No guarantee it will go away, though.

Neal, I can not see the my document icon or desktop file, which puzzles me as to where this is actually located. The owner of my documents is root, when it is located on a users desktop, hmmmm... By the way, I'm really enjoying LXDE, many thanks 

[Rudge]

This is how I did it,,

Open "configure Your LXDE desktop/ PCManFM Settings/ ,, in the window that opens click on the " Desktop" tab and unchecked the first box at the top "Manage the desktop and show file icons".

I don't know if this will affect any other icons that you have but if you just want NO icons it works. I will try to see if I can add icons with this option un-checked.

EDIT: as I suspected, no icons show up with this option. 

[Rudge]

Neal, can you give me the directory name? As in ,, start with "/" lol .. I can't find the files you and parnote are referring to.

[scoundrel]

Neal, can you give me the directory name? As in ,, start with "/" lol .. I can't find the files you and parnote are referring to.

same here

[Neal ManBear]

Rudge et al,
Look at Open Folder in /usr/share/applications. Open it and you will see that its name is pcmanfm-folder-handler.desktop. I had thought that this was the "My Documents" .desktop file, but after after some testing of ShowIn/NotShowIn have concluded that it is not. Open /home/<you>/Desktop, and you will not see "My Documents" listed. Nor will you find it in /root or /etc/skel.

Right click the desktop icon, open it with your text editor, and you'll see a blank page. This has led me to conclude that this icon is governed in some other way.
I'm searching.