Remove "home" Icons from Desktop

[limotux]

Hi,
It's been a while.
I just reinstalled.

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Host: lenovo Kernel: 5.10.0-9-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: N/A 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: MX-21_KDE_x64 Wildflower October 20  2021 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) 

I see I have all the "home" folder icons on the desktop. I deleted, but found it actually deletes the folder (which I don't want to delete of course).

How can I make those icons not appear on the desktop?

Thanks

[limotux]

OK. Just got it.
right click desktop -> Enter Edit Mode -> Configure Desktop and Wallpaper -> change /'Layout' from Folder View to Desktop View.
Just in case somebody needs this.

[arjaybe]

Alternatively, if one prefers the folder view, you can go into your desktop folder (~/Desktop) and rename the files with a dot at the beginning. That hides them.

.FAQ.desktop
.Help.desktop

[Richard]

I see I have all the "home" folder icons on the desktop. I deleted, but found it actually deletes the folder (which I don't want to delete of course).

How can I make those icons not appear on the desktop?

Settings > Desktop > Icons > Icon Type=none
will turn off icons showing on the desktop.

[f.denys]

In XFCE i use a simple script to toggle the desktop-icons (on/off)
Simple but effective at least for XFCE:

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#!/bin/bash
 
current_status=$(xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -v -lp '/desktop-icons/style'|awk '{print $2}')  

if [ $current_status -eq 2 ]; then
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -np '/desktop-icons/style' -t 'int' -s '0';
sleep 1
else
xfconf-query -c xfce4-desktop -np '/desktop-icons/style' -t 'int' -s '2';
sleep 1
fi;