How to clean icon home file from my desktop ? ubuntu 20.04 lts [duplicate]

Solution 1:

If gconf doesn't work, open your home directory and press Ctrl+H to show hidden files. Look in .config for user-dirs.dirs and be sure it resembles this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Work"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

Solution 2:

Press Alt + F2 and type/copy:

gconftool-2 --set --type bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir false

You probably need to log out and back in again (alternatively, you can run nautilus -q to restart just Nautilus).

Solution 3:

Press alt f2 and type gksu gconf-editor and navigate to apps -> nautilus -> preferences. Have a look at:

im2

Solution 4:

I think if you run this command:

vim ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

you'll find:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"

but it should have /Desktop like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"/Desktop

So just run the command mkdir Desktop and then change the line in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.

The other lines should look like this:

XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Work"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

Solution 5:

This is what helped me

sudo -H gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

And replaced XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" with XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"