How to hide desktop folder icons?

[koder]

I dumped my Mint copy abut a month ago, but from memory:

Answer depends on which icons you are objecting to.

Some like Trash and Home are controlled from the settings options under 
the system administration menu as in directions below


    Hide Drive Icons on the Desktop

In addition to the Computer and Home icons, Linux Mint adds an icon to 
the desktop for every removable drive that you attach to your system. 
The icons can be hidden by these steps:

 1. Go to Menu and click the "System Settings" icon.
 2. Click the Desktop icon under Preferences.
 3. Untick the Desktop icons for Computer, Home and Mounted volumes if
    you don't want to show them on the desktop, then close the window.

The drive icons as well as computer and home icons would then disappear 
from the desktop, simple as that. Remember that you can always access 
the drives from Menu > Files.

Harold

On 02/18/2015 04:42 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
> After doing an update to Linux Mint 17, the desktop is now filled with
> folder icons (that I do not want).  How can I get rid of them?
>
> (Why do they keep doing stuff to us that we do not want?)
>
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