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Thread: Desktop icons suddenly displayed in 19.04

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    Desktop icons suddenly displayed in 19.04

    This afternoon I rebooted my Ubuntu 19.04 system and when logging back in all my home directory files where displayed on the Desktop:

    https://imgur.com/a/zVYt69A

    For the Desktop Icons Extension I have everything unchecked. How can I remove all these files from my Desktop?

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    Re: Desktop icons suddenly displayed in 19.04

    There's a setting somewhere for whether the "desktop directory" is ~/Desktop or ~. It looks like something has changed that setting. I don't use Gnome any more, so I couldn't tell you where it is, just that I remember seeing it.

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    Re: Desktop icons suddenly displayed in 19.04

    Thanks! That was the problem. ~/.config/user-dirs.dir contained:

    XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"

    editing this to set the Desktop directory as $HOME/Desktop, running xdg-user-dirs-update, logging out, and logging back in again did the trick!

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