Friday, 3 April 2009

Stop Automount of Fixed hard drives

Fedora(9 and 10) shows all device icons for all the fixed drives on the GNOME desktop, which is annoying, especially if you have another distribution/operating system installed. The following links provide a useful tip to hide the unwanted device icons from your desktop.

Remove only HD-Partition-Icons from Gnome Desktop and keep the Hotplug-Icons

Hiding unwanted device icons on your Fedora desktop

1 comment:

sam said...

The second link is very useful!
However, it has changed a little and it should be:

http://www.johnson.homelinux.net/mywiki/Desktop%20Icons