Icons on desktop

[jmadero]

I am hoping that I can remove some of the icons that load on my desktop, when I try it says I don't have permission. The icons are the partitions of the hard drive, sda2 (windows partition) and two random ones, DellUtility and DellRestore.

I also wanted to know how to empty the trash from the prompt. Thanks everyone


jmadero

[Dapper Dan]

Open a terminal and type:

gconf-editor

...and press "enter." Then go under "apps" -- "nautilus" -- "desktop."
Look for where it says " volumes_visible" and uncheck it. That should take away those icons.

Empty trash from the command line? As regular user (not as root unless you are sure of what you are doing!)...

rm -rf .Trash/*

will do it.