Upgraded to GNOME 3 and no desktop icons showing
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Open the gnome-tweak-tool
and navigate to the desktop tab as shown in the picture below and activate 'Show Icons'. If you don't have gnome-tweak-tool
installed you can install it by opening a terminal and typing:
sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool
Comments
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Bashar Al-Abdulhadi over 1 year
After switching to GNOME 3 I noticed my desktop icons, files etc.. are not showing although when I open the folder
/home/me/Desktop/
everything is there.What am I missing?
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Bashar Al-Abdulhadi about 6 yearsThank you @Videonauth As I have two monitors is it possible to have the Primary monitor having the main icons and the rest gets extended to the second monitor? (main monitor on the left and extended on the right) or it must start from the monitors on the right first?
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Videonauth about 6 yearswell your free to move the icons wherever you want on your screens :)
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Bashar Al-Abdulhadi about 6 yearsbut they reset to the second monitor once I organize desktop by name or so :)
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Videonauth about 6 yearsyes thats normal behavior and cant be changed, I for myself simply arranged them by hand and not changed them since.
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Pranav over 4 yearsThere is no "Desktop" tab to go to, hence there are no "Show icons" to select/turn-on. Gnome tweaks version: 3.32.0-1, which is the latest as of now. @Videonauth
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Lexible almost 4 yearsThe desktop section is not present in my Tweak Tools. When I try to add desktop icon extensions following your link I get "This is an extension enabled by your current mode, you can't install manually any update in that session."