Prevent /u from showing up on users desktops in F7

[Darryl]

Tim wrote:

> I'm guessing the /u is a USB-connected external drive?  If so, you might
> need to play with HAL rules regarding removeable media.  It's a very
> long time since I've customised such rules, and I don't have any custom
> ones stored on a current machine, and the methodology has changed since
> I did it, so you'd be better googling for some help on that.

Nope :-) /u is a RAID5 (all of /dev/sdb) on an Adaptec 2120S controller 
and really has no business being shown on the desktop. Another filesytem 
on /dev/sda2 (sda is a RAID-1 array also on the 2120S) appears on the 
desktop too which I don't want either. However, /var on /dev/sda3 & 
/home on /dev/sda7 are separate filesystems and neither show up on the 
desktop (which is good) so there has to be a file/table/logic choice 
that the desktop is accessing to decide which filesystems are to appear 
on the desktop.

> If you have several you don't want showing, you might find it easiest to
> just turn off using Nautilus to draw the desktop.  It'll be blank, then,
> regardless.

Ok. Blank other than what icons the user or I decide to put on it or 
just blank and no hope of a clickable icon? Is this a global setting or 
user by user?

>> I don't want that either and have this command from a previous question 
>> pertaining to FC6:
>> gconftool-2 --set --type=boolean /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible false
>> Hopefully this is "global" for all users.
> 
> Easy enough to test, create another user and have a look.  But gconf
> editing edits the current user's settings, in my experience; and doing
> it as root just affects the root's settings.

Ok, I'll just rip through each of users and run that command manually 
for all the time it takes. Any idea where the default settings are kept 
so I can permanently change them?

> Are you on the CentOS lists, as well?  If you really want to use it, I'd
> suggest trying to resolve it, there.  Rather than use Fedora when you
> preferred something else.  It's possible someone might help you work out
> how to take what's supported in Fedora and do the same on CentOS.

Not on the CentOS list. Had CentOS 5 worked on the hardware we probably 
would have gone with a RHEL5 subscription but F7 worked (more or less) 
out of the box with the latest PAE kernel now making use of all 4GB of 
memory so it gets the nod. At this point we're pretty much ready to 
start using the machine desktop quirks and all. We've been happily using 
FC3 for years and it has been solid but the versions of mysql, php et al 
are becoming an issue and the 3ware RAID controller + SATA disks bog on 
I/O so it is time for something a little more up to date & capable. 
Also, love the ballooning theme ;-)