one more dumb gnome question -- well, actually, two or three

[Aaron Grewell]

> desktop icons. i want there to be none. i've gotten it down to two --
> the little house thing and the trashcan. the latter i can live
> entirely without; the former i'd like to move elsewhere, onto the
> panel or something. seeking "panel manual" i got nautilus (which on
> first blush causes me to think that eazel should not have just gone
> out of business but its principles beaten as well) and my home
> directory -- no documentation of any sort. anybody know how to do
> this?

It's been a longish time since I toyed with Gnome, but those icons are in 
fact created by nautilus itself.  If you can find where in the Gnome init 
scripts nautilus is loaded and eliminate it, they should go away.  The reason 
I know this is because it used to crash so much, and every time it died it 
would take my desktop icons with.