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enter image description hereI have posted this question before but the people who were kind enough to answer did not address the problem as posed and the post is now dry - i.e. no-one addressing it. So, I repost the question, hopefully clarifying my problem:

After recently upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 I found icons on my desktop that were not there before - see attached screenshot. When using Gnome-Tweaks I can remove my personal folder and the Wastebasket but the others remain and I don't know how to remove them. I should be most grateful if someone could help. Thank you.enter image description here

Duncan
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  1. If you don't have a folder named Desktop in /home/username make one by, right-clicking in /home/username > New folder and naming it "Desktop" or by typing mkdir ~/Desktop in terminal.
  2. Open the .config folder in your desktop.
  3. Double click on user-dirs.dirs files.
  4. Change the XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" line to XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
  5. Press F2 and type the command r to refresh gnome.
VidathD
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