[SOLVED] Desktop Icons disappeared suddenly !

camelman · 04-07-2019, 02:36 PM

Good evening everyone,
First of all thank you for allowing me to register on this forum. This afternoon, my desktop lost all the icons that I had installed (trash, PC, network ....). The icons in the taskbar are always present. Another detail that seems interesting to report, when I right click on the desktop, nothing happens and there are more options to change the wallpapers. Aged 68, I recently started on Mint 19.1, and I am not a champion of Linux; Thank you in advance for helping me.
Best regards
Rick (camelman)

frankbell · 04-08-2019, 06:07 PM

I've not experienced anything like this.

My first thought is to take a look at the log files around the approximate time that this happened to see whether any anomalies leap out at you.

syg00 · 04-08-2019, 07:34 PM

Presuming Cinnamon desktop, try this - simple to try and can't do any harm. No need to create the start-up launcher unless it keeps happening.
I had similar with a (much) earlier version of Mint, and I simply re-installed the desktop package from memory.

camelman · 04-09-2019, 09:04 AM

Good Morning Gentlemen and thank you for your responses. To be more specific on the Linux Mint distribution here is the description:
RELEASE=19.1
CODENAME=tessa
EDITION="Cinnamon"
DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa"
DESKTOP=Gnome
TOOLKIT=GTK

frankbell, i have no clue about the exact time the problem appeared for the first time.
Thanks both again for your help
Regards
Rick

camelman · 04-09-2019, 10:04 AM

Thank you very much Grandmaster syg00 for your advice and the link you gave me: actually I followed the procedure described and after restarting my PC, I found my icons "magically".
Thanks a million and best regards.