I got tired with having the cool desktop images that Webidler digs up for me being hidden behind a sea of icons on my desktop and had a clearup. However I couldn’t remove the icons for mounted volumes without unmounting them so dug up this command:
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
Thanks so much for this. Been looking for an easy way to fix this. Kudos.
Ditto last comment. Thanks for a clean desktop.