Comments on: Show The Computer, home, Network and Trash icons on Your Ubuntu desktop

By: Changa Dorji

Changa Dorji — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 07:56:07 +0000

I tried and i am not able to get the icons such as desktop and icon view. instead i get things like SON@thinkcentre.
Please help

By: DexterIsMyHero

DexterIsMyHero — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 01:27:37 +0000

I’ve done this many times, but THIS TIME it didn’t work!

I’ve got those checkboxes checked in gconf-editor>apps>nautilus>desktop, and also set my default file view to list_view in preferences.

I’ve rebooted several times and checked the settings again.

They are still there it changes nothing. What could be the matter?

By: cory

cory — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:06:51 +0000

This worked perfectly on ubuntu 11.04. thanks so much

By: Sergio Luiz Araujo Silva

Sergio Luiz Araujo Silva — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:09:11 +0000

as root open gnome-terminal

# show home icon”
gconftool-2 \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
-t bool -s /apps/nautilus/desktop/home_icon_visible true

# show icon computer
gconftool-2 \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
-t bool -s /apps/nautilus/desktop/computer_icon_visible true

# show trash icon
gconftool-2 \
--config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
-t bool -s /apps/nautilus/desktop/trash_icon_visible true

logout and login for source configuration, enjoy!

By: Sudarshan

Sudarshan — Thu, 15 May 2008 23:54:28 +0000

Hi,

Can you please give the instructions for Kubuntu too?

Thanks