No icons on Desktop - Oneiric

[albertoguevara]

Hey guys,

I've been struggling with an issue for a week now. My unity desktop is completely empty, no folder, computer, network nor trash icons are shown. I remember the last thing I did was trying to put the Home Folder on the desktop using dconf Editor. I have set everything in dconf editor to deafult but nothing happens. I have checked my "Desktop" folder in Home and it has all the icons that were there before.

Any idea on what could be happening?

Thanks.
Alberto.

[JazzPotato]

Could you try right clicking on the desktop and clicking create new folder? By default there is nothing in the desktop folder when you install

[albertoguevara]

Nope, I tried right clicking the desktop and I didn't get the menu to create a folder or anything else, is like it's locked or something like that.

[Frogs Hair]

Install the Gnome Tweak Tool / Advanced Settings if not installed . Under desktop you will find some of the options you are looking for .

[albertoguevara]

Install the Gnome Tweak Tool / Advanced Settings if not installed . Under desktop you will find some of the options you are looking for .

This solved the problem, the "Have file manager to manage the desktop" was disabled, I just enabled it and all the icons appeared.

Thanks!.