If you ever feel inclined to turn of your desktop icons by disabling nautilus from painting your desktop you can use the following command:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
You can reverse the change with:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop true
This can be useful if you want to use xwinwrap to paint your desktop. This will allow you to play movies or screen savers as the desktop.
xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -nf -b -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID &
If enough people ask for it, I’ll post a binary because I know they’re getting hard to find. :(
