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by **Frijolie** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:27 pm

I've just completed a fresh upgrade to Bea and like the new addition(s). However the only thing that I don't like is the desktop icons. How do you remove these?

I've done some searching and can't find anything relevant. I read some suggestions to use gconf-editor? But I think that was relating to mounted drive icons so I didn't mess with it.

Also, I've uninstalled the 'display a daily fortune cookie in the terminal window' via Synaptic. However, each time I load a terminal it gives me an error message:

bash: /usr/games/fortune: No such file or directory

how do i stop the terminal from trying to load a program that has been uninstalled?

Thanks for your help.

P.S. I like the eye-candy on the documents, videos, projects, movies, downloads, and pictures folders.

Also, props to getting the network-manager installed by default in Bea, this was the first LiveCD where my wifi connection worked out-of-the-box!

by **clem** on Fri Jan 12, 2007 6:09 pm

Fortune problem:
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtop ... shrc&t=471

Icons on the desktop (latest version of mintDesktop):
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=540

Et voila

Clem

by **Frijolie** on Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:10 am

thanks, yet again Clem you save the day! muchos gracias!

by **clem** on Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:54 pm

"muchas gracias"

de nada

by **Frijolie** on Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:27 am

mi espanol es muy bueno! muchas gracias! how many languages do you speak Clem? What ELSE can you do oh Clem the omnipotent?

by **clem** on Thu Jan 18, 2007 7:37 am

lol. Just to answer your question so..

--> 4.

Clem,
PS: I can make great white-wine pasta and drink a huge quantity of Guinness very fast.. but it's not THAT interesting

After that I'm just a pretty boring guy

by **mintero** on Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:15 am

clem wrote:Icons on the desktop (latest version of mintDesktop):
http://linuxmint.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=540

Et voila
Clem

This page is unfortunately unavailable since a lot of days. And I dont really like these icons on my desktop. Any other idea?

Thanks in advance

by **mumbo719** on Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:39 am

If by remove icons you mean change the icon set

Go to Mint Config choose Desktop then click Themes.

Choose the theme / color scheme you like (will also change the icons) and for further tweaks click on theme details and you shall see an Icon Tab.

For new / additional themes and icon sets go here
http://www.gnome-look.org/

Good Luck!

by **mintero** on Sat Feb 17, 2007 9:58 am

mumbo719 wrote:If by remove icons you mean change the icon set

Thanks for replying. It' s not a question of theme. I' d like to completely remove these icons.

by **clem** on Sat Feb 17, 2007 3:25 pm

To get rid of the Home and Computer icons you run mintDesktop and to get rid of the links to the mintDisk mounted partitions you run mintdisk (make sure to have the latest.. otherwise this option won't be there).

Clem

by **mintero** on Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:36 pm

clem wrote:To get rid of the Home and Computer icons you run mintDesktop and to get rid of the links to the mintDisk mounted partitions you run mintdisk (make sure to have the latest.. otherwise this option won't be there).

Clem

Ok, the problem was that the mintDesktop wasn't installed, because the appropriate repository was missing in the sources.list Now everything is OK. Thanks

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