[arch-general] I'm having a brain far^Hilure... I can't find the XFCE control

[bardo]

2010/3/19 Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <jtwdyp at ttlc.net>:
> 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