What are those white circles on the desktop in Gnome 3?

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Published on 2014-08-18T19:03:53Z Indexed on 2014/08/18 22:24 UTC
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I have Fedora 20 with GNOME 3.10.2.

On the desktop background (i.e. where the wallpaper is), there are five small white circles centered at the very bottom of the screen. The first is filled, the others are not. I can click those circles, thereby changing which one is filled, like a radio button.

I cannot for the life of me figure out what those circles are supposed to do, and it's starting to drive me crazy. Clicking and thus changing which circle is filled does nothing I can perceive, and there seems to be no configuration option anywhere that has anything to do with them.

What are those things? Is there any way to get rid of them?

Edit: I made a screenshot of my desktop with no programs running. You can see the dot/circle thingies at the bottom. Link: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2014/08/18/Screenshot_from_2014-08-18_235427.png

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