[TIP] Take back control of the desktop

Budgie Desktop
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Oddly enough, after testing a distribution on my bootkey flashed with Balena Etcher, or even after using another distribution of my multiboot, Nemo loses desktop control when I switch back to UB 24.04:

desktop-bug
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I can’t explain it, but if it happens to you, I’ve got the fix.

Open the terminal (Ctrl Alt t) and copy-paste this line:

gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false

Then:

reboot

Open the terminal again, press twice on the top arrow of the cursor to get the line you entered, replace “false” with “true” and enter.

Et voilà! Nemo will now control the desktop again. :upside_down_face:

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And, as it happens quite often, I added two aliases to the “.bashrc” file to restore the desktop (“rd”):

alias rd1='gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false && reboot'
alias rd2='gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true'
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shadoks
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Why keep it simple when you can keep it complicated?

In France, we’ve given this insidious pathology a name: “shadokisme”, named after these quirky little characters that delighted television viewers in the late 60s and showed a daring that’s been lost ever since.

Budgie desktop settings > Desktop > Desktop icons > Toggle off. Wait for 2 seconds. Toggle on!

:sweat_smile:

That said, I think there’s a bug somewhere…