How do I stop Unity showing NFS shares in the launcher?

[Carl H]

I have about half a dozen NFS shares mapped to my Ubuntu14.04 box. Each one of them shows up as an icon in the Unity Launcher. This is unnecessary and annoying - they take up a fair bit of space, and in any case I only need them to be visible from Nautilus, which they are.

Right clicking and 'unlock from Launcher' gets rid of them. But they come back the next time I log on, or if I remount them.

Is it possible to stop them appearing in the launcher ever?

More generally.... is it possible to configure exactly what shows up in the launcher?

[mc4man]

The current crappy system Ubuntu has in place amounts to a blacklist only, based on device uuid.
I know nothing about nfs shares - do they have their own uuid's?

You could see what's up by logging in (all shares showing). Pick 1 & 'unlock from launcher'. Then open dconf-editor > com > canonical > unity > devices & see what's entered in the blacklist for the share you just removed.
Then log out/in, remove the very same share again. Check & see if it's in the blacklist the exact same as before or does it get a new entry?

[Carl H]

NFS shares don't have UUIDs, but this problem is now the least of my problems with Ubuntu14.04. I've had to resort to typing this from my Linux Mint box...

[Carl H]

You could see what's up by logging in (all shares showing). Pick 1 & 'unlock from launcher'. Then open dconf-editor > com > canonical > unity > devices & see what's entered in the blacklist for the share you just removed.
Then log out/in, remove the very same share again. Check & see if it's in the blacklist the exact same as before or does it get a new entry?

It's the same entry, but after removing the share again, the entry has '-' added to the end of it.