Am Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:50:36 -0400
schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@ttlc.net>:

> I know it can be done. I've done it twice, once in Xubuntu, and once
> in PCLinuxOS... I've managed to turn off all the other annoying
> desktop icons. But I cant find the control to tell it to stop
> cluttering up my XFCE desktop up with iconic representations of my
> hard drive partitions.
>
> could somebody give me a clue how to disable them? Thanks!

Right click onto the desktop. Then desktop settings -> Icons or Symbols
(I don't know how it's called in the English version).

Am Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:15:43 -0400
schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@ttlc.net>:

> BTW I don't suppose you know of a way to get a different background
> image on each XFCE workspace???

That's currently not possible on Xfce. There's already a feature
request for that in Xfce's bug tracker since more than 5 years.

http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369

Heiko

Am Sun, 21 Mar 2010 09:47:23 -0400
schrieb "Joe(theWordy)Philbrook" <jtwdyp@ttlc.net>:

> Is XFCE stable? Does it only process config changes at certain times
> of day? What could possibly account for it taking hours ( actually
> several reboots PLUS hours since I first made that desktop setting
> say "None".) for it to start respecting the setting????

Xfce is stable.

Changes at the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications (the menu) are
processed only after Xfce is restarted or immediately by running
`update-desktop-database` as root. I think they are also processed
without restarting Xfce once in a while. I don't know if this also
applies to the .desktop files in ~/Desktop, but I think so.

Heiko