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ijuneja
Asked: 2020-01-21 09:20:18 +0800 CST

Unable to place any folders or icons on Desktop

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Recently I have stopped being able to place any icons present in the home/Desktop directory onto the actual visible desktop.

I believe this issue started after an update since I don't recall making any tweaks to settings that could have caused this.

To reiterate, there are no issues with the Desktop directory itself, the issue is the inability to place folders or icons of any sort onto the desktop.

desktop-icons 18.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Enable the desktop icon feature (if it is disabled for some reason) by running the following command in Terminal:

    gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

    Then reboot your system.

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