Is there any way to remove drive icons from the desktop?

[Robby Workman]

On Thu, 4 Dec 2014 18:16:52 +0000
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> As per the subject, I have a drive icon for an NTFS drive which
> appears on my desktop that I would really prefer wasn't there.  Is
> there any way to hide it?


Something like this (with filename changed as desired and device
name changed as needed) should work:

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ignore-cryptvol.rules 
KERNEL=="sda3", ENV{UDISKS_IGNORE}="1"

-RW