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All I want to do is remove the Desktop bookmark on the left-hand side of the nautilus window. I am using the latest Ubuntu 16.04, Xenial.

I've tried modifying the .config user-dirs file as well as the user-dirs.default file (as I am aware both need to be changed at the same time for the changes to work). I was able to rid myself of all the other bookmarks I don't need but even by commenting out desktop line, still no progress towards removing the desktop bookmark.

Any ideas?

Daniel Barenboim
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  • I'm not sure you can remove that. After all the file manager is the one managing and populating your Desktop. –  Oct 21 '16 at 12:22
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    Even removing the Desktop folder itself does not remove it from the sidebar. Looks like a hardcoded thing – Rinzwind Oct 21 '16 at 13:18
  • After changing both user-dirs files and removing the desktop folder from my home folder, I now get an error that says can not find file location when I click on the desktop bookmark so I am more eager than ever to rid myself of it. Anyone know where it is hard-coded? Maybe I can go in there and work a little magic. – Daniel Barenboim Oct 21 '16 at 18:41
  • @DanielBarenboim https://github.com/GNOME/nautilus is the source code. Simply comment out the lines that display the bookmark and recompile it. Removing something is infinitely easier than creating something new. – WinEunuuchs2Unix Oct 21 '16 at 23:09
  • rip me, I want to add it back and I see "removing something is infinitely easier than creating something new" – ridderhoff Aug 04 '18 at 05:16

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