Thanks Dan. Killed the "gjs .../ding.js" process, and it respawned with a new PID, but no change to the disembodied icon. After reboot the icon was gone though, and the functional one was still there.
I had a quick look, and found a bunch of bug reports/blogs about similar, in particular with ding, and most with the same icon issue, usually with the same suggestion of killing the process. I had noticed though, with htop running in the laptop window (my primary screen is an external monitor), that even after I'd closed firefox to make the box responsive again, that gnome-shell was still taking a lot of CPU, and nothing open besides a couple of terminal windows.. Maybe this bug from 2022 (with people chiming in in 2023, 2024 and 2025 that it was still happening to them) etc seems maybe firefox wasn't the _only_ culprit for the machine locking up? (That, and it being old and not enough RAM) In particular this response https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2358#issuecomment-2098032847 Disabling it with gnome-extensions disable [email protected] seemed to fix that.. So for me, could maybe prevent both. I might try it anyway at some point to monitor if it helps in general, but for now at least, the icon is gone. I'll update if any change, but see what you suggest also. Thanks for the reply ** Bug watch added: github.com/pop-os/pop/issues #2358 https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2358 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2139001 Title: "Ghost" Home dir shortcut on Desktop can't be deleted, draws over all other apps To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons-ng/+bug/2139001/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
