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In xubuntu, my desktop icons have dissapeared. I can not remember the cause, but if I do, I will edit this and put it here. Also, when I try to right click on the desktop, nothing happens. I have tried many reboots, but nothing worked. If I have to reset what was on my desktop, that is fine, because all that was on it was some shortcuts to some files.
EDIT:
I can view my desktop files from the file manager, if that helps.
You have to disable all desktop icons in the Desktop configuration dialog in the Icons section. This will make the Application menu your right-click menu.
Unfortunately you can't have both.
Ok, I tried a whole bunch of things to my own question, over the course of about 2 hrs, so I'm not 100% sure something I did before this wasn't part of the solution, but this worked for me:
In a terminal, do:
rm -R ~/.cache/sessions/*
xfdesktop
sudo reboot
Source: Desktop icons not showing up in xubuntu (and I cant right click on the desktop)
Once I did the above and my icons all came back, I changed my background back to the original one, as it was one of the fancy photos after doing the commands above. Here's what it looks like now:
I think I also did the following things before doing the commands above, but I do not think they were necessary. Nevertheless, I'll include them here for completeness' sake in case they were unknowingly part of the solution:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install --reinstall tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-common
...along with many restarts as I tried various things.
And I uninstalled nautilus too via sudo apt-get remove nautilus, as I had previously installed it as well.
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