Thread: Contemplating purchasing the N9... I have a few questions..
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2011-11-18 , 19:02
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Originally Posted by original_z View Post
I'm also looking to buy this..

I dunno if anything needs to be uninstalled, but you should know that at launch there was no system for placing apps in folders. You can rearrange, of course, but you can't just sweep them under the rug if you want to hide them forever.
Ah ha! You forget that at any time, as root, you can use the x-terminal to hide the icons for applications you don't want to see.

Just cd to /usr/share/applications

Then mv the .desktop file for the icon you want to hide to someplace in /home/user/MyDocs.

Then BANG!! Good as invisible!
 

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