CentOS 7 Remove Items On Screen

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How can I remove the four items on screen?
Applications, Places home trash

from the command line?
I’d prefer to remove the top panel and bottom panel all together if possible, but they can stay – I just don’t want anything showing on the screen.

searched all around for kiosk mode gnome3 etc.. not finding anything good for CentOS7. Was able to do this in CentOS 6
can’t believe they took out functionality.

Any way to “not” have those menu items and not have icons on the main screen?

Thanks

jerry

8 thoughts on - CentOS 7 Remove Items On Screen

  • Mate allows me to remove those things using dconf-editor. I have check boxes for computer-icon-visible, home-icon-visible, network-icon-visible, trash-icon visible and volumes-visible under org-mate-caja-desktop.

    The same set of checkboxes are also available under gnome-nautilus-desktop.

  • 2014-10-06 23:03 GMT+02:00 Frank Cox :

    Check out gnome-tweak-tool​
    . It allows you to change a lot of ‘hidden’ options in GNOME.

    – Jitse

  • *>>* Applications,
    *>>* Places
    *>>* home
    *>>* trash
    *

    Frank – this suggestion worked. I got rid of the icons on the screen…

    Do you have any “tricks” for getting rid of the “Applications” and “Places”

    in the top menu bar? or remove the menu bar all together.

    Or at minimal – if you click on them – no further menus are given.

    Thanks,

    Jerry

  • While I don’t know how to do that, I thought I’d also throw in another thing you may wish to investigate: right-click on the desktop brings up a menu with a few items on it, one of which is “open in terminal”.

  • This is what I do in Gnome or Gnome Classic … press the Super key (the Windows button on your key board) and search for tweak … the tweak-tool will show up and then you can make many selections of what to show on the desktop, etc.

    I do not think that will work with Mate though, only gnome3 and gnome3-classic desktops.

    The gnome 3 desktop is really not that bad once you get used to it … I
    really like the super key, auto workspaces, and the ability to have the
    2nd monitor either move with the workspace or stay on the main workspace, etc.

  • Bear in mind that I don’t use gnome 3. Mate makes this really easy to do. Just right-click on the panel, and select “remove panel”

    Perhaps you would save yourself some grief by using Mate instead of Gnome 3? It appears to be a lot less rigid than Gnome 3 when it comes to making any changes from the stock setup.

  • Am 07.10.2014 um 17:18 schrieb Johnny Hughes :

    for gnome2 something like:

    gconftool-2 –type bool –set /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible false

    will do the job, for Mate (untested):

    dconf write /org/mate/caja/desktop/computer-icon-visible false

    other keys home_icon_visible, trash_icon_visible

    —
    LF

  • Any chance of getting gnome3 to work under x2go? I’ve switched to mate everywhere for that.