How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04 and later?

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In 11.10 Using Configuration editor, one used to be able to edit a boolean parameter named : Desktop_Show This allowed to hide/show all desktop icons. This latter was removed in 12.04. Config Editor in 12.04

Someone, knows how to hide desktop icons automatically?

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score 62 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 28 '12 at 23:57

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It's in gsettings (& dconf-editor), to do from cli use

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

From gui open dconf-editor (install dconf-tools) as in screen

dconf-editor

answered Mar 28 '12 at 23:57

doug

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 28 '12 at 18:33

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The MyUnity application (in the software center) has a lot of useful features for customizing Unity, including the ability to hide desktop icons. The newest version supports 12.04.

edited Mar 28 '12 at 18:33

fossfreedom

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answered Mar 28 '12 at 16:35

zookalicious

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 14 '17 at 18:26

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If you are using the Gnome desktop environment then

Open the Tweak tool
Click on the Desktop tab
Toggle the "Icons on Desktop" button to off.

edited Jun 14 '17 at 18:26

David Foerster

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answered Jun 14 '17 at 17:50

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How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04 and later?

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