Duplicate icons in 15.04 w/Cinnamon

**treii28** · July 9th, 2015

I recently upgraded to 15.04 then re-installed cinnamon from the default repository. Now whenever I place a file of any kind in the ~/Desktop folder, the icon appears twice. One of the icons is selectable/movable/deletable, and the other seems to drop starting from the top left (under the default icons if any) tiled and cannot be selected. Removing the file removes both icons. Does anyone know how to fix this?

**adlerhn** · August 18th, 2015

You should report this as a defect: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/

**adlerhn** · August 18th, 2015

Actually, there is already a defect that seems to be similar to what you are reporting: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/4512

Maybe you should add your case there.

**exit02** · August 18th, 2015

"pkill nautilus" appears to work-around the problem for me in the short term.

**leycec-3** · October 29th, 2015

exit02 helpfully provided a longer-term solution in this Cinnamon issues thread:

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

Running the above command in a terminal window both immediately and permanently fixed this issue on my system. With any volunteer luck, Cinnamon developers will begin providing sane defaults under Ubuntu. Until that glory day, the above should suffice.

**jcmcnch** · January 6th, 2016

Thanks for posting, fixed it for me too! I was also having this weird problem where the desktop background would revert to the gnome desktop, which for some reason I had set to a picture of a duck drinking water out of a puddle. So it was rather infuriating to find my desktop icons duplicated and this duck staring at me. Thanks for saving my sanity!

**Mike_DeMattia** · February 2nd, 2016

Thanks for posting this! Fixed the exact issue I was having with Cinnamon in 14.04!

Cheers!

**Paul5mith** · March 4th, 2016

This issue can also be fixed by removing Nautilus since Cinnamon uses Nemo instead.

**goofprog** · March 6th, 2016

Actually, I got this issue when I installed an alternate window manager to unity. The window managers were sharing resources somehow. I did reverted back to unity by removing cinnamon.