How to display Trash and Home folder icons?

Solution 1:

You can enable them using Unsettings:

Unsettings "Desktop" tab

Or you can use the command line:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop home-icon-visible true
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop computer-icon-visible true
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop trash-icon-visible true
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop network-icon-visible true

Solution 2:

Story behind

I don't have any of those icons in my desktop, so I just checked the options that you mentioned and this were already activated!

So, maybe there is a problem with dconf, well I don't know, but these configurations doesn't make any change in my system (Ubuntu 12.10).

The answer

  1. Install Ubuntu Tweak Install-It

  2. Click in the Tweaks label and then in the Desktop Icons icon (sounds recursive :) )

    SS_1

  3. Finally you should see a window similar than the following allowing you to show/hide the icons.

    SS_2

This is my result. It works even when donf have different values.