sudden appearance of gnome-like icons on desktop

[Edscott Wilson Garcia]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, joe_schmoe wrote:

> Edscott Wilson Garcia wrote:
>
> Cheers Edscott
>
> Slight problem - I am running xfce4.0.5. Sorry, should have mentioned
> that in my first post.
>
> When I call up the .xfce4/xffm/xffmrc.xml file, this is what I see:
>
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <xffm>
>   <CONFIG_VERSION>0.6</CONFIG_VERSION>
>   <preferences AUTOSCROLL="1073741824" DRAG_DO_COPY="1048576"
> SHOW_DOT="0" FILETYPE_SUBS="268435456" IMAGE_PREVIEW="33554432"
> ENABLE_MONITOR="0" ENABLE_AUTO_T="0" HIDE_WASTE_B="0" RSH_X_SSH="0"
> RSYNC_X_SCP="0" SHOW_MM="32" SHOW_TB1="64" SHOW_TB2="128" SHOW_F="0"
> SHOW_TITLES="0" SHOW_SIZE="0" SHOW_DATE="0" SHOW_UID="0" SHOW_GID="0"
> SHOW_MODE="0"/>
>   <options icon_size="2" theme="gnome"/>
>   <geometry width="695" height="409" hpane="1"/>
> </xffm>
>
> It would appear that somewhere here there must be a way to disallow
> desktop icons, but which would serve that purpose?

In current svn you can disallow with either environment variable or with 
--disable-desktop. This new xffm handles desktop the way nautilus does, 
but will not generate popup menu unless click on top of a desktop icon. 
This is so that you can use xfdesktop menu or whatever menu you like 
instead.

regards,