{"id":4224,"date":"2014-11-12T10:04:42","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T10:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4224"},"modified":"2014-11-12T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T10:06:41","slug":"remove-desktop-icons-xfce4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/11\/remove-desktop-icons-xfce4\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Remove Desktop Shortcut Icons in (X)Ubuntu XFCE4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-logo-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-logo-icon.png\" alt=\"Remove Xfce Desktop Icons\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-logo-icon.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-logo-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quick tutorial that shows beginners how to remove the shortcut icons from Xfce4 Desktop in (X)Ubuntu 14.10, (X)Ubuntu 14.04.<\/p>\n<p>Xfce4 shows Home, Devices, Trash icons on desktop out-of-the-box. You can&#8217;t simply remove them from the right-click context menu. But it&#8217;s easy to hide or disable them via the <i>Desktop Settings<\/i> utility.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open <b>Desktop Settings<\/b> from the Application Menu. Or right-click on desktop and select it from the pop-up context menu.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-settings.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-settings.png\" alt=\"Xfce Desktop Settings\" width=\"241\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4226\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> When the utility opens, navigate to <b>Icons<\/b> tab. Un-check all the boxes under <i>Desktop Icons<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that you might need to re-size the window so that you can see the checkboxes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-icons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-icons.jpg\" alt=\"Disable Desktop Icons\" width=\"400\" height=\"363\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-icons.jpg 400w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/xfce-desktop-icons-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This should remove user&#8217;s Home, Trash, and Devices icons. <\/p>\n<p>If you want to hide all desktop icons besides removing application shortcuts from <i>~\/Desktops<\/i> folder, just set <b>Icon Type<\/b> to <b>None<\/b>. Note that this also changes the desktop right-click menu.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick tutorial that shows beginners how to remove the shortcut icons from Xfce4 Desktop in (X)Ubuntu 14.10, (X)Ubuntu 14.04. Xfce4 shows Home, Devices, Trash icons on desktop out-of-the-box. You can&#8217;t simply remove them from the right-click context menu. But it&#8217;s easy to hide or disable them via the Desktop Settings utility. 1. Open Desktop Settings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[1136,224],"class_list":["post-4224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-xfce","tag-desktop-shortcuts","tag-xfce4"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}