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Thijser
Asked: 2016-02-07 11:09:01 +0800 CST

Installed gnome and now desktop is empty

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I recently installed gnome using:

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-gnome-desktop

Now I rebooted my system and it all looked fine however the desktop remains empty, I can paste symbols onto my desktop and this results in my desktop receiving a copy of my symbol, suggesting that it's not a folder related issue.

Any ideas?

14.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The GNOME desktop environment hides desktop icons by default. If you want them to display open the GNOME tweak-tool under the Desktop tab set Icons on Desktop to ON.

    Gnome Tweak Tool Desktop settings

    If you do not have the GNOME tweak-tool you can install it using the command sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-toolor search for it in the Ubuntu Software Center.

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