Nothing is appearing on the Desktop in Kali Linux

Question

I downloaded VMware workstation in Kali Linux. It wasn't running, it was having some header files issues. So I looked up the solution and someone said to run the following commands.

apt clean && apt update && apt dist-upgrade

After this, when I restarted the computer, all the icons from the desktop were removed.

The data is still there in the Home/username/Desktop directory.

Also there are only a few options when I right click the desktop.

Please help me out.

Solution

I had a similar problem on Kali linux, but I got it fixed using the Tweak tool.

Tweak -> Extensions -> On the upper bar there is a switch.

This got disabled in my case for unknown reasons and I could not see the Desktop files or any kind of menu/icons at the Desktop.

Just enabling this switch back on fixed the problem.
I don't know if somehow a command can be run from the terminal to enable this switch, so maybe someone who knows can add this, too.

Comments

[Romeo Ninov]

Maybe you can check this QA in UNIX/Linux: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/399626/…

[Admin]

Please read: Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?

[Kamil Maciorowski]

Possible duplicate of No desktop icons in kali linux, but files can be seen on file explorer

[Scott - Слава Україні]

Please don’t post a new answer just to say that another answer is right.