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 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/merge_requests/1 To clean up some of the mess one can do: 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. -- 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/1875125 Title: moving files from desktop to a nautilus window does nothing To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1875125/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
