2010/3/19 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>: > I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once in > PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying desktop > icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop cluttering up my > XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my hard drive partitions. If you don't want anything on your desktop (including files you put in ~/Desktop) just launch xfdesktop-settings, open the "Icons" tab and under "Icon type" select "None". There you have it, and you can even restore sane permissions on ~/Desktop ;-) bardo
