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When I try to add an icon to my unity desktop in Ubuntu 14.04 it says
Error while copying
There was an error getting information about "/"
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The specified location is not supported
This happened to me in 13.10 too.
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
unity:
Installed: 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity 7.2.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Apr 17 19:48:45 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty
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unable to add desktop icons to unity desktop 14.04
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1309277
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