Cinnamon 1.6.7 - desktop icons missing on boot

Bug #1085714 reported by caribriz
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Bug Description

Linux Mint 14 - Nadia - Cinnamon 1.6.7
Nemo 1.1.2

The desktop icons "Computer and Home" fail to appear when booting into the desktop,
even when enabled in Cinnamon Settings > Desktop.

"Trash", "Mounted Volumes" etc. also fail to appear (if checked).

*Very* occasionally they would appear, but most times not.
Restarting Cinnamon sometimes worked, sometimes logging out/in sometimes worked, but at next boot they would not appear.

Details on this thread in Linux Mint forum -
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=208&t=117974&sid=5c9b498ef5bfbdd1df345adb263770f6

Also was reported happening in the above thread in Linux Mint 13 - Maya - Cinnamon version 1.6.7.

caribriz

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historyb (historyb) wrote :

This bug also affects me

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Nish Vamadevan (nishv) wrote :

It does affect me as well...

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KH (kiehian) wrote :

It affects me and for me, I suspect it might have something to do with the location of the icons.

The reason is as follows:
-I'm using an extended desktop setup with a external 24" Dell monitor, in addition to my laptop screen. If I were to "mirror displays" the icons appear but when I choose an extended display, the icons disappear.
-To experiment, I first set the display mode to "mirror" then I'll drag the icons to the middle of the middle of the laptop (and mirrored) screens
-I then changed my display mode to extended display, with the 24" monitor set at 1920x1080. The icons will remain on the middle of the laptop screen.
-If I were to change right click on the desktop and sort the icons, they will disappear again.

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Adam Bruce (brucey-99-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
Changed in linuxmint:
status: New → In Progress
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Jerome Leclerc (jeromeleclerc1) wrote :

@KH

I don't think your config has anything to do with the problem. I have a standard desktop computer, with a single monitor, and the problem is exactly the same. The only workaround I found is to log off and log back in.

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Nick Payne (nick-payne) wrote :

On my system (Mint 14.1 Cinnamon amd64), the desktop icons aren't there until Nemo is started. When I login the desktop icons are missing. However, as soon as I start Nemo, the desktop icons appear. If I logoff and logon, the desktop icons are missing again, and reappear as soon as Nemo is started.

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Adam Bruce (brucey-99-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Do you need both Nemo and Nautilus?

Personally, I would remove one of them such as Nautilus, then they will not conflict with each other.

Essentially they are fighting over who should run the desktop icons

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Nick Payne (nick-payne) wrote :

Mint 14.1 doesn't install Nautilus - when I installed from 14.1 Nautilus was not installed, but I still have the problem in that the desktop icons don't appear until Nemo is started.

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Adam Bruce (brucey-99-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

OK, hopefuly this will resolve the issue though

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/pull/91

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Brahim Salem (brsl) wrote :

This bug also affects me too on Linux Mint 14.

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Karl Pearson (karlp-z) wrote :

This is annoying me as well.

I can "workaround" this by using my folder applet on the taskbar and open any nemo window.

Pressing ALT-F2 then typing in nemo and hitting "enter" also brings the icons back.

Thank you for fixing this very soon, however.

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Valters (valters) wrote :

Happens also to me:
Ubuntu 12.10, Cinnamon 1.6.7-0ubuntu1~quantal1, Nemo 1.1.2-0ubuntu1~quantal1 (installed from cinnamon ppa)

Icons on desktop not visible on boot, but appear once I launch file manager (Nemo).

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Valters (valters) wrote :

Seems like deleting /etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop file solved the issue for me.
(following the tip at https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/1235 )

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Bart Houkes (mensfort) wrote :

Seems Linux Olivia has the same problem... but worse. Really a lot of characters have dissappeared from screen.
They have Cinnamon 1.8.2 with lots of new features.. and new bugs.

Let's hope they solve it soon, or I find a way to help them.

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Jesse Ide (jeshiideru) wrote :

I'm using Olivia and the latest Cinnamon and I've experienced this. Sometimes on boot all system desktop icons (ones generated from the settings menu, rather than actual icons in the folder) just don't appear. Any files I simply have stored in desktop do still appear. I've tried restarting cinnamon, logging out, nothing works to bring them back. In the desktop settings menu, they're all marked as supposed to be there and checking and unchecking them does nothing. The only solution I've found is to uncheck them all in the settings menu, reboot my computer, and then turn them all back on again.

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Jesse Ide (jeshiideru) wrote :

Also for some reason when I right click the desktop when this happens, the "open in terminal" option is no longer there, as well as the menu icons???

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Bradley (jbradley-whited) wrote :

This was still happening for me in Linux Mint 15, Cinnamon 1.8.8.

I think the problem is that I will do the standard "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade" in the terminal because I don't like to always update through the GUI. This will add back nautilus-autostart.desktop as mentioned above.

Removing /etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop resolves the issue. After removing it, simply log out and log back in.

I do have nautilus installed, but I did not install it. Either it's needed for base Linux Mint or "apt-get update" installs it as part of some upstream update to Ubuntu.

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Grizzly (sven-witterstein) wrote :

Yes, until nemo is opened, no background image and no icons. And all that bradley said to solve ist - when nautilus is installed, it conflicts with nemo managing the desktop.

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Sebastian Philipp (seb-philipp-z) wrote :

This bug still occurs on my system (Qiana, Cinnamon 2.2.13, Nemo 2.2.2)

I'm using the following workaround:

Add the command «/bin/sh -c "killall nemo && nemo -n&"» to the startup applications. This will automatically kill and restart Nemo in the background.

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Rául Palacio (raulpalacio) wrote :

also affects me. Linux Mint 17

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Juan José Magaña Redondo (juanjo-magana) wrote :

It also happens randomly in my computers. Probably it has nothing to do with it, but it only takes place with Intel graphic cards, not AMD or Nvidia. Nautilus not installed. Linux Mint 17 Cinnamon amd64.

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Juan José Magaña Redondo (juanjo-magana) wrote :

In my case at least, it was a problem with the wallpaper changer. Changing from Variety to Wallch seemed to resolve the issue. However, I haven't had any problem with any of the two programs once I changed the key org.nemo.desktop.background-fade to false using dconf-editor. As I said in my previous post, it never happened with AMD or Nvidia cards but randomly with Intel cards. Whether you have a wallpaper changer or not, I advise you to change this key and see what happens.
It seems that the next version of Cinnamon will bring native support to wallpaper change, which is good news as well.
I hope this can help.

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VIshal (vish9287) wrote :

This bug also affect me
I was working on my computer and after failure of electricity, the computer went off.
and when I turned it on I also have missing icons and weired icon style allover.
I was unable to fix it so I reinstall the mint.

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Mike Raaijmakers (theflyingdutchman) wrote :

Since Linux Mint 18.1 this problem is back and it applies to all high resolution and Multi-Monitor setups.
See Bug #1650977 - After logout or restart all desktop icons are gone, for more leads to this problem.

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