Comment 23 for bug 1883174

Oh, ok... Now I understand. You simply can't install the official desktop
icons in the Ubuntu session. You must install gnome-session, choose gnome
shell session instead of Ubuntu session when logging, and there you can use
the extensions.

Of course, you may want to also install dash-to-dock, that gives you the
left dock, and kstatusNotifier.

El mié., 30 sept. 2020 20:11, John Hoff <email address hidden>
escribió:

> I rebooted multiple times and no luck.
>
> Here are the steps I followed :
>
> - Used sudo apt remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons to uninstall
>
> - Deleted the folder $HOME/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-
> icons@csoriano
>
> - Rebooted and verified it is gone all together from tweaks
>
> - Downloaded the .zip patch file and placed in a local directory
>
> - Rerean the Meson/Ninja commands and verified that the .local folder
> was recreated (I did not get any errors)
>
> - Rebooted again.
>
> At this point I still do not have desktop icons as a choice at all in
> Tweaks -> extensions. If I go to the website
> (https://extensions.gnome.org/) then it is not listed in the installed
> extensions list. If I search for it and try to turn it on with the web
> page I get a message that says "Can't install "desktop-icons@csoriano" :
> This is an extension enabled by your current mode, you can't install
> manually any update in that session"
>
> So basically I am stuck with no option to turn it back on. I suspect I
> can just run sudo apt install and readd that way, but it will be the
> same /usr install. Am I missing something?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883174
>
> Title:
> Some desktop icons disappear
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