Comments on: Show/Hide Desktop Icon On Ubuntu

By: Mohamed Tarek

Mohamed Tarek — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:15:00 +0000

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By: kai

kai — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:38:57 +0000

Hi! Thanks for working this out, it work great for me. I following Lucas’ suggestion to restart nautilus (both setting show_desktop true and false kills my nautilus process – this on a Debian Lenny system btw.), I use “nohup nautilus -n > /dev/null” because I don’t want to open a new nautilus window.

hemanth, I think restarting nautilus is also what you need to do to enable right click actions again.

By: kai

kai — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:38:00 +0000

hemanth, I think restarting nautilus is also what you need to do to enable right click actions again.

By: hemanth.hm

hemanth.hm — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:21:51 +0000

Hiding desktop disables right click action on desktop anyone tried a fix on this?

By: hemanth.hm

hemanth.hm — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:21:00 +0000

Hiding desktop disables right click action on desktop anyone tried a fix on this?

By: Arief Bayu Purwanto

Arief Bayu Purwanto — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:44:41 +0000

I have to restart nautilus in order to get my desktop icons back. I’m not sure why this is.

Yeah, this happened sometimes. I don’t know why. Sometime it switch icon fast, sometime, I need to wait for a couple of minutes just to get the desktop icons back.

By: ariefbayu

ariefbayu — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 22:44:00 +0000

I have to restart nautilus in order to get my desktop icons back. I’m not sure why this is.

Yeah, this happened sometimes. I don’t know why. Sometime it switch icon fast, sometime, I need to wait for a couple of minutes just to get the desktop icons back.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:25:55 +0000

Hi,
Great Tip! I’ve added a couple more lines to do away with all the top and bottom panels. Setting the size to 0 is only necessary once, and then should be commented out. I have to restart nautilus in order to get my desktop icons back. I’m not sure why this is.

-Lucas
#!/bin/bash

current_status=`gconftool-2 –get /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop`
echo “Current Status: ” $current_status;

if $current_status; then
echo “Disabling desktop icon…”;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/auto_hide true;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide true;
gconftool-2 –type integer –set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/auto_hide_size 0;
gconftool-2 –type integer –set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide_size 0;
else
echo “Activating desktop icon…”;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/panel/toplevels/bottom_panel_screen0/auto_hide false;
gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /apps/panel/toplevels/top_panel_screen0/auto_hide false;
nohup nautilus &
fi;