Re: OT: Desktop icons vanishing. How to get rid of them?

Joerg wrote:

Icons
are IMHO just decoration anyhow and superfluous. Can one get completely
rid of them?

Yes, by only using the CLI. I have a completely icon-free desktop; whenever
I want to start a program I just pop open a console with a single keystroke
and type in the command and argument (actually, just the first few letters
of them and then TAB, which autocompletes the word.

robert
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