Comments on: Hide Partition Icons From Your Ubuntu Desktop

By: lion

lion — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:10:24 +0000

Thanks Yanagi for the first good and versatile idea I read in the comments.

By: yanagi

yanagi — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 06:02:57 +0000

as you know, if it is mounted on your home or on media, it will be shown in Desktop.

I wanted to locate it on my home directory, and to see the other icons like usb memory on desktop, i used following.

1. mount your device on /mnt
sudo mkdir /mnt/newdevice
change fstab properly to mount it here

2. you may see its disappeared from desktop.

3. make shortcut on your home directory.
ln -s /mnt/newdevice /home/yourname/storage

now I can access sshfs and smbfs and new harddisk directly from my home directory, and they are not shown in desktop, plus, if I attach my usb memory, then it correctly shows the icon in my desktop.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:24:32 +0000

You can also hide mount points by moving them outside the screen.

With gconf-editor, change ‘nautilus-icon-position’ in /apps/nautilus/desktop-metadata

By: Rune Svendsen

Rune Svendsen — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:49:45 +0000

Thanks John.
Mounting in /mnt/ instead of in /media/ hides it from nautilus and my desktop.

By: Hung

Hung — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:46:28 +0000

Thank you very much!!! It is helpful.

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By: dario

dario — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:44:53 +0000

thx

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By: John Wells

John Wells — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:17:49 +0000

To hide partitions mounted in fstab, just mount them under /mnt/ . If they are mounted elsewhere, the icons show on the desktop.

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