Hard disk icon on desktop

[arijit sarkar]

> Derek... On both my laptop and my destop, my NTFS partitions are mounted 
> through fstab and the icons appear on the desktop... It was like that 
> out of the box after installing Feisty.  After installing NTFS-3g, I 
> enabled the write permissions with the utility and the icons I still 
> there....

Open "Gnome configuration editor" (known as gconf-editor). go to the key
(left side) : /apps/nautilus/desktop/

on the right-hand, de-select "volumes_visible" checkbox.

regards,

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arijit sarkar <ari_sarkar_1980 at yahoo.co.in>
India