Hiding desktop icons in a custom Kali live ISO with gnome

I built for fun and convenience a portable customized Kali live ISO with gnome that I can carry easily around on my USB pen. I am struggling on two very stupid and useless things that, anyway, I would like to fix just for the sake of completeness. The one I am asking in here is about hiding the desktop icons that get automatically shown in the Desktop (home directory gets expanded in the desktop). Some more details: - Kali 6.1.0-kali9-amd64 - Gnome version 44.0 - I use persistence for /home and for /opt, so all ~/.config and user configurations will be persisted, while changes to /usr, /etc and so on can be easily changed in the build process of the iso. I tried to play with both ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and dconf-editor without any real success.