Package: upgrade-reports Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I just did a Debian8 to Debian9 upgrade on a particularly old and crufty (initial install back in days of Potato?) machine. No significant issues (just the usual handful of /etc files to update with minor local mods after accepting the new versions ), except one thing perhaps worth mentioning: Having been a user of Gnome "Flashback" previously, after playing with "modern" Gnome on a fresh Debian9 install on another machine I decided to make the move on this upgrading machine too. All seemed well, except that gnome-tweak-tool would not enable the "Icons on Desktop" mode I like. I'd had no problems enabling this on the fresh Debian9 install, but on the upgraded machine no amount of toggling, restarting, or using `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true` would affect the desktop. (It was certainly possible to toggle the gsettings true/false state though). A breakthrough was achieved by removing "Files" from the list of "Startup Applications" also in gnome-tweak-tool: on next login, there were my desktop icons. I'm not sure what had put "Files" into my "Startup Applications"; whether it's a legacy of the previous Gnome flashback use (although I don't remember having a file dialog appear on login) or it was put there on my first login to the "modern" Gnome shell. No idea either why removing it had the effect it did; guessing the nautilus launched there might somehow have been racing with or conflicting with the `nautilus-desktop` apparently started to manage the desktop. I don't currently have access to the freshly installed Debian9 machine to dig into what's different about the setups, if anything. In any case I have no desire to try and put "Files" back into "Startup Applications" as with a Desktop covered with stuff there's little value in also having a file dialog shown on login. Just to be clear: on the fresh install toggling "icons on desktop" in gnome-tweak-tool worked fine. Mainly reporting this as googling suggests there's a few other "desktop icons don't work after an upgrade, and gnome-tweak-tool's toggle doesn't fix it" complaints out there and maybe this'll help someone. -- System Information: Debian Release: 9.1 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
