SOLVED: Removing Computer and Home shortcuts from Desktop
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SOLVED: Removing Computer and Home shortcuts from Desktop
I've been using Ubuntu for several years and thought I'd try LMDE on some of my systems. I installed it on a development machine yesterday and installed the updates. Since then I have been trying to remove the "Computer" and "Home" shortcuts from my desktop. I tried dconf-editor and unselected Show Computer and Show Home under nautilus. I installed gnome-tweak and turned off Show Computer and Show Home. After a reboot both shortcuts remained. I looked in ~/home/.config and didn't see anything obvious to change there either. I'm guessing that gnome-tweak is meant for Gnome 2 and that's why it's not working, but obviously I'm missing something.
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Re: Removing Computer and Home shortcuts from Desktop
Are you using MATE, Cinnamon or Gnome-shell?
If you're using Cinnamon, it's right under the Cinnamon settings under "Desktop".
If you're using MATE, it should work like it did in Gnome 2, but mate uses a separate set of gconf-* tools (such as mate-conf-editor). Not sure about dconf-
Others may be able to help better.
If you're using Cinnamon, it's right under the Cinnamon settings under "Desktop".
If you're using MATE, it should work like it did in Gnome 2, but mate uses a separate set of gconf-* tools (such as mate-conf-editor). Not sure about dconf-
Others may be able to help better.
Re: Removing Computer and Home shortcuts from Desktop
I'm using Gnome Shell. Turns out that the Advanced-Settings application had Computer Visible and Home Vosible set to ON. As soon as I set them to OFF the shortcuts disappeared. The only odd thing is that Advanced-Settings sure looked like the gnome-tweak-tool I was running from terminal. I'm thinking the problem was that I was running gnome-tweak-tool as root and so I wasn't changing my own desktop.