Show And Hide Desktop Icons In Gnome Linux
However, in many Linux distributions (such as Ubuntu), many of those options are turned off, and if you flip through the Nautilus preferences (the logical place, since Nautilus does draw the desktop), there doesn’t appear to be any way to show them, or to hide them, depending on your own personal preference. Thankfully, Linux is nothing if not customizable, so changing this behavior isn’t all that difficult. We’ll just need the Terminal (or Run Dialog), and the Configuration Editor....