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i wanted drag/drop option so I installed gnome desktop icon ng extension. But after that i got all my icons duplicated, only one is selectable. I switch the old desktop extension, but it doesn't work. I reboot also...

Any ideas?

heynnema
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SHURA
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Duplicate desktop icons are because you have both the standard system desktop-icons extension and the DING extension installed at the same time. You need to uninstall this...

sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons

With X11, you may have to restart gnome-shell with ALT+F2 (or ALT+FN+F2), then "r", then ENTER. Or reboot (or logout/login) if you're running Wayland.

heynnema
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  • It should be sufficient to just simply disable (turn off) the redundant plugin on the GUI of either Gnome Tweaks or the dedicated app Extensions, shouldn't it? – Levente Apr 05 '21 at 19:14
  • @Levente No, you can't disable the standard system extension at https://extensions.gnome.org/local/. I can't say about Tweaks or Extensions. – heynnema Apr 05 '21 at 19:15
  • Then this account on a personal experience may be useful: https://askubuntu.com/a/1328230/1157519 – Levente Apr 05 '21 at 19:45
  • @Levente Not quite the same problem. If you go to https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ you'll find that you can disable/enable desktop-icons and it won't make any difference, it still works. I believe that this is because it's one of the three standard system gnome-shell extensions, and you won't have enough privs to touch it. – heynnema Apr 05 '21 at 19:59
  • Are you making this assumption and mounting this argument without actually trying it out either Extensions either Tweaks on your system? (And to offer my findings: yes you can switch it off with Extensions. Disabling in Tweaks indeed does not take effect.) – Levente Apr 05 '21 at 20:03
  • @Levente No argument here :-) You might be right, if your experience indicates that Extensions will turn it off. As I mention in my first comment, I don't have any direct experience using Extensions to turn if off. The standard https://extensions.gnome.org/local/ won't do it. – heynnema Apr 05 '21 at 20:07
  • Thank you so much @heynnema now it works :) And as i said in my question, i tried to disabled the extension in tweaks, but it didn't work. So eynnema is the best :-p – SHURA Apr 06 '21 at 15:49
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right click somewhere on the the desktop, select Settings and adjust the screen settings from there:

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graham
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You have both the system desktop icons extension, and the DING extension installed locally: either uninstall the system desktop icons package with:

sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons

as suggested by the other answer OR remove your local extension with:

rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ding@rastersoft.com

In both cases you will have to restart the gnome-shell after that. Note: removing the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package will cause the removal of the ubuntu-desktop meta-package. I'm not sure that's a good idea because it might lead to problems when upgrading the distro.

In my case, I removed the local extension. Also, this way the (system) extension will be automatically kept up-to-date.

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