Hide the desktop icons in Gnome
To hide the icons that show up on the Gnome desktop, launch gconf-editor and go to apps > nautilus > preferences. Uncheck the box at the right of show_desktop and close gconf-editor.
To hide the icons that show up on the Gnome desktop, launch gconf-editor and go to apps > nautilus > preferences. Uncheck the box at the right of show_desktop and close gconf-editor.