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br116
Asked: 2018-06-12 17:13:37 +0800 CST

Desktop icons on Ubuntu 18.04 no longer displayed properly

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After upgrading to Ubuntu 18.04 my desktop icons no longer display their respective artwork. Only after opening them individually and going through the process of "Untrusted Application Launcher" will correct them.

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Is there a way to trigger a mass "trust" to bring the art back or some other method?

icons .desktop gnome-shell 18.04

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  1. Best Answer

    desktop files can be trusted via the command line:

    gio set Your_desktop_file.desktop "metadata::trusted" yes

    NOTE:

    • Make sure your Desktop file is executable with the following command: chmod +x Your_desktop_file.desktop
    • You have to run this command with the same user as the owner of the desktop files
    • It only works if you run the command in the gnome shell (not via SSH)
    • To do this automatically at logon, you have to make a logon script which will execute a script, as this only run when Gnome is started. For example you can create a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart/ which execute some shell script including the gio commands
    • Make sure nautilus-desktop is really started. You can create a while loop with a sleep 1 till nautilus-desktop runs
    • Icon's will not refresh automatically. You can achieve this with pressing F5 on the desktop or restart nautilus in your autostart script. killall nautilus && nautilus-desktop & (the last & sign is to make sure the rest of your code will run. Otherwise it will stop the script there till you close nautilus-desktop process again)
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