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casualfanta
June 5th, 2008, 11:32 PM
Despite some fairly extensive searches I haven't worked out a way to stop my windows and extra partitions (Dell recovery and mediadirect partitions) from appearing on my places menu. They aren't causing a problem as such, but since i do not intend to mount said partitions, I would prefer that they weren't cluttering up my Places menu.
So in summary - is there a way to customise the items that appear on the Places menu.

I would also like to have all 6 of my bookmarks appear on the main Places menu rather than in their own separate folder - is there a way to change this too.

Cheers
casualfanta
June 9th, 2008, 06:42 PM
bump
prshah
June 10th, 2008, 02:23 PM
stop my windows and extra partitions (Dell recovery and mediadirect partitions) from appearing on my places menu.


You can edit your /etc/fstab and comment out the "said" partition(s). For more details, post the outputs of the following commands
cat /etc/fstab
sudo fdisk -l
Forlong
June 10th, 2008, 02:34 PM
Instead of commenting them out, you should mount the partitions you don't want to show up there from /media to /mnt by default.
iv2101
July 24th, 2008, 11:03 AM
I have a similar question: how to remove/add items to the PLACES menu? it is trivial to modify the APPLICATIONS menu, but I can't even locate the settings file for PLACES.
Thanks!
prshah
July 24th, 2008, 11:18 AM
I have a similar question: how to remove/add items to the PLACES menu? it is trivial to modify the APPLICATIONS menu, but I can't even locate the settings file for PLACES.
Thanks!

From any "Open" dialog box, you can drag-n-drop folders to add to the places menu... I assume the reverse will remove.
iv2101
July 28th, 2008, 11:55 AM
From any "Open" dialog box, you can drag-n-drop folders to add to the places menu... I assume the reverse will remove.

This only creates duplicates of the items in the menu. Thanks for the advice though. I certainly want to delete some of the things there.
iv2101
August 9th, 2008, 10:24 AM
bump

how do i ADD/REMOVE items to/from the places menu?
DaymItzJack
August 10th, 2008, 01:12 AM
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iv2101
August 10th, 2008, 10:05 AM
Thanks! my side panel was always hidden so i didn't notice this
jelly
August 28th, 2008, 03:23 PM
Awesome, thanks DaymItzJack - I've been looking for a way to edit the Places menu for a while now.

- Jelly.