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I dumped my Mint copy abut a month ago, but from memory:<br>
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Answer depends on which icons you are objecting to.<br>
<br>
Some like Trash and Home are controlled from the settings options
under the system administration menu as in directions below<br>
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<h2 class="header2" id="Hide-Drive-Icons-on-the-Desktop"> Hide Drive
Icons on the Desktop</h2>
<p>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:</p>
<ol>
<li> Go to Menu and click the "System Settings" icon.</li>
<li> Click the Desktop icon under Preferences.</li>
<li> 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.</li>
</ol>
<p>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.<br>
</p>
<p>Harold<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/18/2015 04:42 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:joe@actionline.com">joe@actionline.com</a> wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:19e8e8bd3fbf1fce7d2053b56e129299.squirrel@box945.bluehost.com"
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<pre wrap="">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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