Upstream comment: Since I can't reproduce this bug here (and there seem to be no duplicates of this occurring in Bugzilla), I think you just have the wrong values in GSettings, (maybe they were migrated from your old GConf configuration). You can get/set those with the command gsettings get/set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons
Please reopen this bug in case it's still reproducible with the right GSettings values. (change bug status to New) ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/930134 Title: nautilus always does show_desktop To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/930134/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs