[solved] Hiding the desktop

Is there a way in GNOME to hide all desktop icons without using Openbox?
Last edited by drtoki (2009-07-24 03:29:24)

I haven't used GNOME in a long time, so I'm guessing your looking for this: http://linuxblog.pansapiens.com/2008/11 … ee-ubuntu/

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[solved] Hiding certain .desktop files in the XFCE menu?

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Last edited by synthead (2008-01-13 22:00:40)

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OnlyShowIn=GNOME
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I often do presentations on a beamer and have at times a messy desktop. My question is, is it possible to hide the desktop, or make it temporarily invisible so people do not see what is all on my desktop. I know I could clean it up, but somehow I like to be able to hide it as it would support my work and thinking style better.
If there is a application to do this a free one would be best.

jsd2 wrote:
The freeware utility [TinkerTool|http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html] can do this (in Finder options). TinkerTool has lots of other features as well.
great and thanks, I have TT but hardly use its features, and ddi not realise this was possible.
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[Solved] Hiding the file owned by 'X' and 'Y': '/path/to/file/' output

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After Pacman runs (after installing, upgrading, removing, etc), there is an annoying output that shows:
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Last edited by masnormen (2013-09-22 11:50:34)

If I have read your post correctly you are getting the message because you used the force option inappropriately. Although the example pacman command does not show you using force. Do you get this message either with or without the force option?

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Now, with Lion, when I click on the finder it comes into view but all the other open applications come sweeping back in hiding the desktop.
Can I change this back to the way it was before? Or is there another sneaky quick way to show only the desktop and the finder? Set up an entirely different "desktop" in mission control dedicated only to having nothing open in it?
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If you can see a patch of Desktop, with a program (any program other than Finder) window active, hold down both Option and Command and click that patch of Desktop. This will auto-hide all windows for all other programs and switch focus to the Finder/Desktop at the same time.
This works when going from any active program to another, except that the Desktop itself will not get hidden (open Finder folders will get hidden).
To bring a program's windows back to visible status, just click the program's icon in the Dock. For open Finder windows which are hidden, just click the Desktop (plain click).
If you want to hide the windows of just one program, with it the active program hold down just the Option key and click in the window of another program (the Desktop or a folder window counts for this purpose). All windows of the original program will be hidden, and focus will switch to the second program.

The trakcpad can not move files not even on the desktop! how can i solve the problem?

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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Step 1
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
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from the menu bar.
Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard (command-C). Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutes after the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
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[SOLVED]Hiding disk partitions on Gnome desktop

Since upgrading to Gnome 2.22.0, all of my partitions have been showing on the desktop and in the sidebar in nautilus. I don't really want this this to happen, as it gets kind of cluttered.
This has been a problem before, but after some googling, I managed to solve it by putting a '10ignore-disks.fdi' in /etc/hal/fdi/preprobe/. Since the update though, this no longer works. I've tried playing with /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi (after some more googling) but to no avail. I'm not really sure what to try next. Does anyone have any ideas?
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Last edited by SkyValley (2008-04-10 14:55:26)

I have mine in /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/95userpolicy/10-ignore-disks.fdi instead, and it looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="block.device" string="/dev/sdb1">
<merge key="info.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
I don't have an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/sdb1 and mounting it will be via terminal as root.
If I am not mistaken, in Gnome 2.22, if you want your partitions to be mounted on boot (without the desktop icons), just place corresponding entries to your /etc/fstab mounting each partitions under /mnt. Without those /etc/fstab entries, Gnome will mount them under /media and will create desktop icons for each.
Last edited by biloky (2008-04-10 21:57:04)

[SOLVED] KDE4.3 is not rendering correctly the images in the desktop

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Last edited by jjjaime (2009-08-06 19:04:12)

Thank flamelab for your help.
The xf86-video-ati-git:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15374
fixed all my problems. Probably you've heard about it Now, I don't have any rendering problem and I have enabled the Desktop effects. I tested it with and without the xorg.conf file. Both of them worked, but without the file I don't have my keyboard in Spanish.
I read that it was possible the KMS support. I tested it by changing from graphical to text mode but it takes some time so I guess that it's not enabled. Is there any way to test KMS?
Is it possible to upgrade the AUR driver to the official repository? Meanwhile, I will comment my problem in the KDE site.
Best regards,
Jaime

[solved] Dropbox messes up the desktop

Hi,
I'd like to install dropbox and see what it works. So I dowloaded and installed it from AUR. On running it tries to start nautilus; however I always run nautilus with the command "nautilus --no-desktop --browser" because I run fluxbox. I want dropbox to issue this command as well. It does not do this now, and the result is that there are icons that on the screen, the background image is changed, and the fluxbox menu is inaccessible.
Any ideas how to change this?
Last edited by anadyr (2010-01-19 18:28:31)

I installed dropbox with yaourt; apparently the dropbox-nautilus-app comes with it?
I run fluxbox, and I start dropbox by issuing the command.
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Lion keeps hiding my desktop - no icons, no background picture, just the standard grey background.

It usually happens after a few minutes from turning the computer on and running few apps.
I can still see my Desktop & icons through Finder, but it's pretty frustrating.

First, Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, move these files to the Desktop.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist
Then reboot once more.
Does that get us there?

Hiding Icons On The Desktop

I would like to know if it's possible to hid the icons on the desktop (temporarily) so they don't distract me during my "interfacing"....

This works if you want to hide whatever is showing right when you run the command. However, if you want new items placed on the desktop to be hidden as well, you'll need to run the command again. Fortunately, you can use a very simple AppleScript and Folder Action to have this done automatically.
Open up the Script Editor located in:
+/Applications/AppleScript/Script Editor.app+
Paste in the following script:
+on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving these_items+
+do shell script ("chflags hidden ~/Desktop/*")+
+end adding folder items to+
Click the Compile button. Then, click File > Save As... and name it +Hide Desktop+ and save it in the following directory:
+~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts+
(In case you're not familiar, the ~ stands for your Home directory.)
You may need to create the Scripts and Folder Scripts folders if they do not already exist.
Now that you're all set up, you just need to enable the Folder Action. Open Folder Actions Setup located in:
/Applications/AppleScript/Folder Actions Setup.app
Add your Desktop folder by clicking on the + sign in the lower left of the window and selecting your Desktop. Then, select the Hide Desktop.scpt file from the presented list.
You're all done! You can enable and disable the Folder Action whenever you want from the Folder Actions Setup. If you disable it and want to unhide your Desktop files, simply open the terminal and run the command:
+chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*+
You could even create another ActionScript which was just:
+do shell script ("chflags nohidden ~/Desktop/*")+
You could compile and save that somewhere and just run it whenever you disabled the Hide Desktop Folder Action.

Hiding a specific HD from the desktop

Hi there,
Is it possible to hide a specific HD from the desktop?

the only way to do this is to hide it from finder completely, not just from the desktop. (It can remain in the sidebar though). to do that run the following terminal command
chflags hidden /volumes/"drive name"
put the drive name in the command. KEEP the quotes. then log out/in and the drive should be hidden from finder and the desktop.
to reverse the effect change "hidden" to "nohidden" in the command.
another option is to hide all drives from the desktop and put aliases to the ones you do want there back on the desktop. however all new external drive you attach to the computer will be hidden from the desktop too unless you make aliases for them as well.
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Leopard update will not boot HD, 2nd HD or show anything on the desktop?

G5 Dual 2 GHz, 4 GB RAM - 250 GB main HD, 2nd HD 500 GB internal used for storage only. Running 10.4.10 before Leopard
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On several restarts, I tried to dump the P-Ram, also a start up in safety mode (which didn't work - holding down the Shift Key on startup). Nothing seems to work.
The wierd thing is, I can see the Hard drive and my 2nd HD (internal storage drive) on my other computers. So I'm backing up everything to them and an external 1 TB HD I had connected to the G5.
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Something tells me this is not good.
Any ideas by anyone on how I can get my desktop back and have my HD's mount?
I really don't want to erase my HD, just too much stuff to loose.
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Thanks and any help will be appreciated,
Jim

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I have the same exact issue...every last word. Except I am running a MSI P6n Diamond. Have any info back from MSI?
Please don't hijack this thread, but open you own.
Give full system specs with detailed information to every single component of your system configuration and describe your problems in you own words again.
Even if you problem appears to be similiar, it must not necessarely have the same causes.
I am sure you will get help and attention in your own new thread.
Maybe this can be solved easily.

[solved] Hiding the desktop

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