John Wells » Networking http://www.jfwhome.com Knowledge Management and Social Web App Guru Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:26:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Ubuntu: Getting rid of icons for mounted network shares http://www.jfwhome.com/2009/08/04/ubuntu-getting-rid-of-icons-for-mounted-network-shares/ http://www.jfwhome.com/2009/08/04/ubuntu-getting-rid-of-icons-for-mounted-network-shares/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:07:28 +0000 http://www.jfwhome.com/?p=15 I have several network NFS shares that I mount in Ubuntu using /etc/fstab. While this works fine, recent versions (I think it has been annoying me since Edgy) of Ubuntu have an annoying habit of creating a desktop icon for each share.

Annoying!

Annoying!

A desktop icon is fine for an SD card, or a USB stick, but it’s not ideal when you have a ton of network shares.

It is easy to turn off all desktop icons for mounts using gconf-editor. But I still want some of them (such as the aforementioned USB sticks) to show — just not the NFS mounts.

As it turns out, the solution is actually obvious: semi-permanent items should be mounted in the right place, under /mnt. If you mount elsewhere, e.g. under /home, you get the annoying icon. Under /mnt? No icon.

Although this turned out to be quite obvious, it is new to me — for well over a year now I’ve just had all desktop mount icons turned off waiting for the solution.

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