Ok, after reading the bug a second time, I realize I misread the first time.
Your problem is that you don't have any icons on the desktop, not that only the 'Computer' icon is missing. For the Ubuntu GNOME Remix, the gsettings org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons is set to false. Set it to true. It is set to true if you are using the standard Ubuntu or if you install ubuntu-settings (which will also change the default theme and some other Ubuntu tweaks). Alternatively, you can use GNOME Tweak Tool to enable "Have file manager handle the desktop." ( I reported the confusing GNOME Tweak Tool behavior in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/656977 ) The GNOME developers and designers aren't interested in bringing back desktop icons by default. However, the 'Computer' icon setting *has* been removed in Nautilus 3.6 which is included in Ubuntu 13.04 Alpha. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1094008 Title: Computer Icon not Visible on Desktop after Update Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I made some updates to Ubuntu 12.10 and now the Computer icon is no longer visible on Desktop. There is no way of putting it back, I tried with dconf-editor, gconf-editor, gnome-tweak-tool and none of them has the option of making the icon visible. I also tried the command "gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop computer-icon-visible true" which gave me "No such key 'computer-icon-visible'". Also, the right click menu does no longer have "Create new document" as option (only New Folder). How to fix these? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1094008/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
