2014-10-06 23:03 GMT+02:00 Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com>: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 16:53:13 -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. Check out gnome-tweak-tool . It allows you to change a lot of 'hidden' options in GNOME. - Jitse