Misbehaviour while moving desktop icons on 20.04.2 (GNOME 3.36.8)

Asked Jun 12 '21 at 19:33

Active Jun 12 '21 at 19:45

Viewed 315 times

Every time I move an item on the desktop into a subfolder it reorders all icons on the desktop. Also newly created folders or files are placed at a random position rather than where I right clicked. Also I can select multiple items but not move them. All of this is very annoying and confusing.

How do I fix this? I already tried digging in the dconf editor but wasn't able to find any settings for the desktop there.

edited Jun 12 '21 at 19:45

Pablo Bianchi

15,657

asked Jun 12 '21 at 19:33

Kyo Kazuto

You probably hit this bug. Unfortunately, the GNOME team decided to remove desktop icons, so we can expect more bugs on this regard. I suggest you forget using desktop icons or move to another desktop environment. – Pablo Bianchi Jun 12 '21 at 19:47
Wow this is frustrating. One more reason to move to a new distro soon I guess. – Kyo Kazuto Jun 12 '21 at 19:51
1

See if this gnome-shell extension helps... https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2087/desktop-icons-ng-ding/, you may also have to uninstall the original Desktop Icons extension (gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons), or you'll get double icons. – heynnema Jun 12 '21 at 20:06
Thank you, @heynnema I already found that and it works great except it doesn't integrate with nemo. But I'll take that for now. Also, disabling the Desktop Icons extension was enough. – Kyo Kazuto Jun 12 '21 at 20:08
Does this answer your question? Basic desktop actions are not available on Ubuntu 20.04 – N0rbert Jun 13 '21 at 07:21
If you use nemo filemanager, then let nemo handle the desktop icons instead of a gnome shell extension. – vanadium Jun 13 '21 at 11:38

Misbehaviour while moving desktop icons on 20.04.2 (GNOME 3.36.8)

0 Answers0