After adding snome tweak tools and making a siwtch that turned off icons on my desktop I know want them back. How do I get them there again?

[image] sigska: snome tweak tools Did you mean some tweak tools or maybe gnome tweak tools ? Just in case : Budgie desktop is totally different from Gnome(-shell). To show icons on desktop, you need Nemo as default file manager.

Hi! Yes, i mean gnome-.tweak-tools and that perhaps this is taking over some configurations. How do i set nemo to default manager? Thanks for reply!

It’s the default in ubuntu budgie.

@sigska first follow @fossfreedom ’s suggestion and check in Budgie Desktop Settings whether « Desktop icons » are enabled. Uninstall gnome-tweaks as it has no purpose in Budgie. sudo apt remove --purge gnome-tweaks You should also remove all unused or obsolete packages with sudo apt autoremove -…

If like me you just installed Budgie as a DE on top of an existing install (and not the distro), you might have several file managers installed. Here’s how to check which one is in use: xdg-mime query default inode/directory If you want to change your default file manager to nemo (to “open in fo…

How can I show desktop icons?

fossfreedom June 29, 2020, 9:50pm 2

just ensure the desktop icons option is enabled in budgie desktop settings

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