Anyone know how to get GNOME *not* to show files in background???

[Reg Clemens]

By default, GNOME shows all the files in your home directory in its
blue background.  In my case thats just a mess, files, little jpegs
that it can show, a mess.  Im either going to have to clean up my
home directory (not likely) or move everything to a subdirectory.

There MUST be a way to tell gnome *not* to do this, just leave the
blue background blue.

Someone want to give me a pointer on how to do this?
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                                        Reg.Clemens
                                        reg at dwf.com