Well I tried doing all that with disabling the icons. It does remove the icons, but the background is still overlaid with opaque black.
It didn't do anything immediately but it did after I logged in - just removed the icons. The directory ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions wasn't there. Mind you it isn't there on a "virgninal" laptop which I haven't done any such fiddling on. How do I get the icons back though? gseettings reset org. (etc etc) runs OK logged out and back in but no sign of them..... Just empty blackness... HOWEVER doing that did solve the mystery of the jpg file. Yonks ago I had tried to set that file as a background to the login screen but it didn't work and I gave up, thinking that the instructions on Ubuntu help weren't working but it was ultra-cosmetic and I didn't bother (I leave my machine running and logged in 24/7 and without screen lock - which incidentally is working OK and safe as only myself and GF can get to it). But doing all that setting that file to be world-readable made it pop up as the background to the login screen. (Such a beautiful picture, sunrise over a sea port, just struck lucky in the early morning. Totally irrelevant but I'll post if if people want to see it.) It's clearly some weird opacity in the desktop display because if I click "Activities" or press the Windows button I can see my background image appearing hazily with a black mist and reduced-sized windows over it as well as the desktop selection list again showing the background image. But if I select a desktop, the background picture flashes up for a second and then goes black apart from the "sliver" at the bottom. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1970141 Title: [nvidia] Desktop icons desktop is black Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Hi I'm running Ubuntu 20.4 with the Apr 20 updates applied. gnome-session: Installed: (none) Candidate: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1 Version table: 3.36.0-2ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe i386 Packages gnome-shell: Installed: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 Candidate: 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 Version table: *** 3.36.9-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.36.4-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages I accept that this is "cosmetic" but it's still annoying. I have two large monitors attached which I run as a large single workspace across both screens. I have been running this for years without problem over several Ubuntu releases. Following the recent upgrade (Apr 20 2022), my desktop wallpaper is no longer displayed properly. Almost all of it is covered in solid black except for a very small sliver of the wallpaper at the bottom of each screen. If I change the desktop background there is no effect (except for the small sliver at the bottom of the screen) changes. If I reboot, or if I log in as a different user, there is no change. If I click "Activities" or press the Windows button, the menu of desktops I can switch to is displayed with the correct wallpaper, but when I switch to it it comes out all black on both screens (apart from the icons, any windows and the sliver at the bottom of the screen). I have 2 different laptops which I have upgraded also but those are OK. I've not tried any dual-screen on them. Possibly relevant is that I have an nVidia display controller. It does appear to be a problem that has crept in with the most recent update. Everything else I do is unaffected as far as I can see but I'd just like something different from the boring solid black. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:20.04.37 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.13.0-40.45~20.04.1-generic 5.13.19 Uname: Linux 5.13.0-40-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.23 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CrashDB: ubuntu CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Apr 24 22:47:59 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-10 (561 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader Symptom: dist-upgrade UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: [modified] mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2020-10-10T15:40:13.152625 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1970141/+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
