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Paddy Landau
June 18th, 2017, 03:44 PM
I've been hunting all over and cannot find what I'm after. I have:


A fresh installation of Lubuntu 16.04 64-bit.
Installed Nautilus.
Set Nautilus as the file manager in menu > Preferences > Default applications for LXSession…

> Launching applications > File manager > Files (Nautilus)
> Core applications > Desktop Manager > nautilus


This works apart from one problem — the Desktop.

The desktop doesn't show any of my files from ~/Desktop.
When I right-click the Desktop, I get a mini-menu rather than what I'd normally expect from Nautilus — see the attached screenshot.
I don't know how to change the wallpaper. Instructions say to right-click and choose Desktop Preferences, but as you can see I don't have that option.

How can I restore the icons to the Desktop, let Nautilus handle it, and change the wallpaper?

deadflowr
June 18th, 2017, 05:24 PM
See what gsettings tells you:

gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons
then if set to false, try changing it to true with

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true

Paddy Landau
June 18th, 2017, 07:29 PM
Thank you — it restored the icons and has given me a much more useful right-click menu!

I used the GUI dconf-editor, which allowed me to see that I could change my background there as well.

With a bit of searching, I also found how to remove icons that I didn't want in org.gnome.nautilus.desktop.

Thanks again for your help!