In addition to this bug, as an FYI to save time; the previous workaround many people follow is installing nemo and setting it as the default for desktop icons. This no longer works.
"gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false", is ignored.
The desktop icon functionality seems to now to be included in what are called mode extensions which a user cannot disable easily. No dconf key value is exposed for disabling desktop icons. It seems gnome-session needs to be installed and then extensions built up from there without desktop-icons as referenced.
gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons
for the values "show-trash", and "show-home" which will remove some of the clutter if one has installed nemo as a workaround; but files are still shown (but not interactable) with no simple way of disabling it.
In addition to this bug, as an FYI to save time; the previous workaround many people follow is installing nemo and setting it as the default for desktop icons. This no longer works.
"gsettings set org.gnome. desktop. background show-desktop-icons false", is ignored.
The desktop icon functionality seems to now to be included in what are called mode extensions which a user cannot disable easily. No dconf key value is exposed for disabling desktop icons. It seems gnome-session needs to be installed and then extensions built up from there without desktop-icons as referenced.
https:/ /discourse. ubuntu. com/t/no- desktop- icons-already- arrived- in-19-04/ 9295/29 /gitlab. gnome.org/ GNOME/gnome- shell/- /merge_ requests/ 1
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To clean up some of the mess one can do:
gsettings set org.gnome. shell.extension s.desktop- icons
for the values "show-trash", and "show-home" which will remove some of the clutter if one has installed nemo as a workaround; but files are still shown (but not interactable) with no simple way of disabling it.