remove my documents icon

[0day]

how to for remove my documents icon from desktop?

[skyhawk]

Removing the 'My Documents' icon is not a configurable option. It is hard-coded into the DE. You can right-click on the desktop, select 'Desktop settings', then uncheck 'Manage the desktop and show file icons', but I would not advise doing that, as you might find open windows doing strange things.

[melodie]

Go to the Desktop directory from within a console, and invoke the command "ls -A" then hit enter. If you see a .directory try to move it out of the way with the command "mv .directory .directory.OLD". Restart the session and see if there is a change. //watch out that there be the '.' : '.directory' -this is a hidden file, hence the '.' at the beginning of the file name.

You could also try to go to PCManFM preferences, and untick "manage the desktop and icons" but then you would not have a background anymore and would need another program to manage it (such as feh).

[Neal ManBear]

I've tried many methods of removing that icon. I wouldn't recommend any of them. Each method creates its own set of problems.

 

[melodie]

I've tried many methods of removing that icon. I wouldn't recommend any of them. Each method creates its own set of problems.

 

You, or Oday can try the method available in the "Openbox only" version : install feh, get the ~/.fehrc from the openbox version, add this line to the ~/.config/autostart.sh :

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feh --bg-scale "$(find ~/.local/share/wallpapers -type f |sort -R |tail -1)" &
have your wallpapers in the directory .local/share/wallpapers -create it or adapt the above line to suit the location of your wallpapers.

With the "sort -R | tail -1" part you will even have a different wallpaper at each session if you have more than one wallpaper in that directory.

Then you can untick "manage the desktop and the icons" in PCManFM and you won't have the "My Documents" icon anymore. (And you will however have feh to display the background).

[flan_suse]

PCManFM version 0.95 will resolve the "My Documents" issue without requiring any tweaks.

[melodie]

PCManFM version 0.95 will resolve the "My Documents" issue without requiring any tweaks.

Hi,

http://blog.lxde.org/?p=727

PCManFM 0.9.7 + libfm 0.1.12 (RC1)

The new file manager, next generation of PCManFM, is now entering RC1 (release candidate for 1.0).
Most of the bugs in pcmanfm bug tracker are cleared and the stability is quite good. As we are now in feature-freeze, no new features are added and this is a major bug fix release.(...)

Nice !