In the default install, there is no longer a switch to hide icons on the
desktop. It used to be in Gnome-Tweaks and there was an extension named
Desktop Icons NG (DING) that also had it. The option has been deprecated
from both. I found it, but I'm not telling you where, because I'm afraid
that you
On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 10:18 -0800, Coburn Ingram wrote:
> I found it, but I'm not telling you where, because I'm afraid that
> you'll delete it, too.
Hi,
my first guess is dconf.
$ gsettings list-recursively | grep gnome | grep icons
org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false
[snip]
Aw, Ralf, you gave it away!
I always did think it was odd that the GUI settings have steadily migrated
away from the detailed options once available in dconf, to a user
experience that "just works," but at the same time is severely dumbed-down.
Desktop icons are the latest casualty.
On Fri, Mar 3
