i wanted drag/drop option so I installed gnome desktop icon ng extension. But after that i got all my icons duplicated, only one is selectable. I switch the old desktop extension, but it doesn't work. I reboot also...
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Duplicate desktop icons are because you have both the standard system desktop-icons extension and the DING extension installed at the same time. You need to uninstall this...
sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
With X11, you may have to restart gnome-shell with ALT+F2 (or ALT+FN+F2), then "r", then ENTER. Or reboot (or logout/login) if you're running Wayland.
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right click somewhere on the the desktop, select Settings and adjust the screen settings from there:
graham
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You have both the system desktop icons extension, and the DING extension installed locally: either uninstall the system desktop icons package with:
sudo apt purge gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
as suggested by the other answer OR remove your local extension with:
rm -rf ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ding@rastersoft.com
In both cases you will have to restart the gnome-shell after that. Note: removing the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package will cause the removal of the ubuntu-desktop meta-package. I'm not sure that's a good idea because it might lead to problems when upgrading the distro.
In my case, I removed the local extension. Also, this way the (system) extension will be automatically kept up-to-date.
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