The same thing happened (is still occasionally happening) to me on Kubuntu 20.04 LTS. I had installed Kubuntu and added a few basic programs from the repositories (no PPAs or anything creative) and the next day when I booted my computer, none of the shortcuts on my panel worked except for the K manu (thank goodness that that still worked). Any shortcut I clicked on didn't open any program, but tried to open something called WSL View (I just got a quick notification in the task manager that said WSL View), which was unfamiliar to me.
A quick Google turned up several references to Windows Subsystem for Linux, which didn't make sense since this computer doesn't have Windows on it. I assumed that I was having an association issue, so I right- clicked each of the shortcuts and found that all of their "Open With" associations were set for Kate, which is a text editor. This also didn't make any sense, especially since clicking on any of them didn't open them in Kate, but just attempted to open them in WSL View and failed. I eventually went into the Muon package manager and did a search for WSL View and didn't turn anything up. One of the related results of that search was wslu, which is listed as a "collection of utilities for the Windows 10 Linux Subsystem" and that showed as being installed. I hadn't installed it, so that also made no sense. When I uninstalled wslu, all of my shortcuts began working again. Interestingly, when I uninstalled it, I got a notification that the gimp-help-en file must also be removed and I happily allowed that. I then went into the package manager and looked up the gimp-help-en package and it does not list wslu as a depency. Also worth noting is that wslu doesn't list gimp-help-en as a dependency. This problem persists because I occasionally get a "Language support is incomplete, additional packages are required." notification that expects my consent in the form of my password. When I give that consent, it installs the gimp-help-en file, which automatically installs the wslu package, and all of the shortcuts on my panel are then immediately hijacked and non-functional again until I uninstall wslu. This, of course, also uninstalls gimp-help-en and means I'll be getting that language pop-up again and will either have to intentionally ignore that or recover from it each time. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to wslu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971757 Title: wslu prevents opening files & directories on desktop Status in wslu package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When wslu is installed, the desktop icons (provided by the ding extension) do not open anymore: double-click or right-click->Open do nothing. Other actions (renaming, moving, opening properties…) seem to work correctly. Uninstalling wslu solves the issue. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/wslu/+bug/1971757/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
