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There are other posts here asking about a mysterious program called @!0,27;BDH. This program (is it a program?) appeared out of nowhere for me after I upgraded from 20.10 to 21.04 last Friday. I noticed it first when attempting to share my screen on a Zoom meeting with my friends. Upon sharing a screen on Zoom, you may choose to share your entire desktop screen or a specific application. This @!0,27;BDH program appeared as one of the options for screen sharing. I could also see it if I press Ctrl+Alt+Tab.ctrl+alt+tab showing @!0,27;BDH

I saw the other posts about @!0,27;BDH and none of them presented any solutions or answers. And this program didn't affect me in the exact same way as it did other people. It appears that it gets people stuck in Activities Overview Mode like this. It happened to me a few times but not too often and it has never been like this.

I decided to reinstall Ubuntu 21.04 from scratch today, erasing the disk and all. I had, of course, backup all my files. Upon finishing the installation I noticed that it now appears as @!72,27;BDH and not @!0,27;BDH. ctrl+alt+tab showing @!72,27;BDH

I never noticed it before when I was using 20.10. I'm starting to feel really worried about this. Does anyone have any idea what it is and how to get rid of it?

Here it is as an option for screen sharing on Zoom.enter image description here

EDIT: showing ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions and ls -al /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions as requested:

    jorgepotyguara@jorgepotyguara-Inspiron-3268:~$ ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions
    ls: cannot access '/home/jorgepotyguara/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions': No such file or directory

jorgepotyguara@jorgepotyguara-Inspiron-3268:~$ ls -al /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 abr 20 07:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 abr 20 07:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 jun 10 20:06 ding@rastersoft.com
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 abr 20 07:44 ubuntu-appindicators@ubuntu.com
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 abr 20 07:44 ubuntu-dock@ubuntu.com
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  • Just my 2c. I think it has to do with windowtitles under wayland (which is why it seems to affect only users of wayland under 21.04. This is the only search I found which does not involve confused Ubuntu users: https://github.com/amivaleo/Show-Desktop-Button/issues/10 . Unfortunately it surpasses my skillset. – Bruni Jun 11 '21 at 06:59
  • Edit your question and show me ls -al ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions and ls -al /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions. Do you have any themes installed/selected? – heynnema Jun 11 '21 at 15:38
  • Done that @heynnema! I do not have any themes installed. @Bruni, I am using Xorg as I was having trouble screen sharing on Zoom on Wayland. – Jorge Jun 12 '21 at 02:58
  • Disable Desktop Icons NG (ding), restart gnome-shell, and see if the problem goes away. – heynnema Jun 12 '21 at 02:59
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    Thank you, @heynnema! It appears to have worked! – Jorge Jun 13 '21 at 13:01

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Go to https://extensions.gnome.org/local/, or use the Extensions or Tweaks app...

Disable Desktop Icons NG (ding) and restart gnome-shell (if on X11), or log out/in (if in Wayland). Remove/uninstall ding.

Reinstall the original Desktop Icons gnome-shell extension...

sudo apt update

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

Restart gnome-shell (if on X11), or log out/in (if on Wayland).

Report this issue at https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng/-/issues

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