No Open Blockers

A friend of mine is migrating from Windows to Fedora and has been asking me a bunch of questions about my setup. As I was looking over my wiki for notes I’ve taken, I realized one of the tasks I always find myself doing in Gnome is to disable the default desktop icons. My reasoning is a combination of the fact that I try to use the mouse as little as possible and a compulsive desire to have an empty desktop. I should probably seek some psychiatric help on the compulsion, but since I was able to disable the icons the doctor will have to wait until my next episode.

There is unfortunately no menu option for this in preferences, so I had to use gconf-editor. That’s not installed by default, but it’s easy enough to fix that.

sudo yum -y install gconf-editor

Once it’s installed, run it and navigate to apps -> nautilus -> desktop. Uncheck the *_icon_visible options until your compulsion subsides and you’re good to go.