When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, this happened. Before upgrading I had one file on the desktop with a custom icon. After upgrading, the custom icon was no longer showing, and it showed a general-looking text file icon. When I right-clicked and opened its "Properties", it showed the icon, and if I clicked on the icon, navigated to the icon file, and clicked "open", nothing changed.
I went to Dash -> Tweaks (gnome-tweaks) and toggled the Extensions -> Desktop Icons to on, and I rebooted. The custom icon still does not show on the desktop. After the reboot, I again right-clicked on the file, went to "Properties", and reassociated the file with its custom icon. But still, it doesn't show the icon on the desktop. As the original poster of this bug mentioned, it's possible to get the icon to show in the file browser. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1871456 Title: Files on desktop don't use custom icon Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Steps to reproduce: 1. Create a new file in the folder "~/Desktop". 2. Right-click -> Properties -> change the icon to some other icon from /usr/share/icons/Yaru/48x48. 3. Close the "Properties" dialogue. When viewing the Desktop folder in Nautilus directly, the icon is displayed correctly. However on the desktop itself, the file still uses the default icon. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.36.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-21.25-generic 5.4.27 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu22 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Tue Apr 7 19:33:47 2020 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'where', 'date_modified', 'date_modified_with_time', 'date_accessed', 'recency', 'starred', 'detailed_type']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-06 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Beta amd64 (20200402) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) usr_lib_nautilus: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons/+bug/1871456/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
