[CentOS] CentOS 7 remove items on screen

Tue Oct 7 14:18:23 UTC 2014
Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 09:15:11AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> >>* How can I remove the four items on screen?
> *>>* Applications,
> *>>* Places
> *>>* home
> *>>* trash
> *
> >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.
> 
> 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.

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".

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