Fedora : Hiding Desktop Icons
With a aim to have a clean desktop of all of the default icons like My Computer, Sawrub's Home, Trash the Gconf Editor was looked at and here is how to do the same. - Open Gconf-Editor under Application -> System Tools -> Configuiration Editor, if the same is missing install it first. - Navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop in the left hand side tree - Once there check the right hand side frame for options corresponding to each of the default icons present at the desktop. - In order to disable the Computer icon uncheck the flag against 'computer_icon_visible' - The computer icon will no longer be availble at the desktop. - Similar steps can be followed for other icons.