I was having this issue almost all of the time, but when I took a screenshot to attach to this post I realised what was happening. As you can see from the attached image, I have two monitors with the desktop spread over them, the left-hand one is a smaller 15" and the right-hand a larger 17". I had set the screen resolutions differently, so the 15" had 1024x768 and the 17" had 1280x1024. Rather than making the desktop non-rectangular as I had expected, it was rectangular at double the 17" size. Thus the icons were still on the desktop, but "off the top" of the 15" screen, and I didn't see them until I took a screenshot of the whole desktop! Its probably not the problem everyone in this thread is having, but it may be worth just checking your PC doesn't think that you have two screens attached and is putting the icons on the one you don't have (for instance if you are using a laptop check that you haven't got an external screen configured etc.). An issue that may or may not be relevant is that the buttons in the bottom panel which show which applications are open and allow you to switch between them mostly aren't showing (again see the screenshot).
** Attachment added: "missing-icons.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/22608531/missing-icons.png -- Nautilus desktop icons won't load https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/303023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
