Just upgraded my Zorin Core from 15.3 to 16.3 then to 17.3.
I can no longer open any files or folders directly from my desktop?
Only way I can access them is clicking the files icon in the bottom bar then clicking the Desktop icon and opening the files and folders from there.
Can anyone help me find the setting to allow me to open and close files directly from my desktop as I used to?
Thanks
Colin
Can you open it by right-clicking on the file on the desktop and then selecting a (default) application with which to open the file?
If these files are program shortcuts, you can right-click on them, go to properties and then mark the file as executable.
From 15 to 17, is a double jump.
I would wonder about a conflict with the package gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons
You might run:
sudo apt remove --purge gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons
sudo apt install -y gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons
They are just normal folders and document icons.
When I right the drop down appears. Has "open" at the top but no "open with" in the list. (selecting "open" still does not open folder or file)
Used to be able to just double click?
Tried that and this is what I got:
billy@billy-Aspire-TC-895:~$ ^[[200~sudo apt remove --purge gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons~
sudo: command not found
billy@billy-Aspire-TC-895:~$ sudo apt install -y gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons
[sudo] password for billy:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
gnome-shell-extension-zorin-desktop-icons is already the newest version (47.0.6).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 10 not to upgrade.
billy@billy-Aspire-TC-895:~$
Restarted but no change.
Note: very unfamiliar with the "Terminal" stuff".
This shows me that you hit ctl+v before correcting yourself and hit ctl+shift+v
You must backspace out that ^[[200~s or reload the terminal.
We all are at first. But it is fast, powerful and useful, so it really helps a lot to familiarize - you do not need to become a techie or guru, but those few basic terminal commands help too much to ignore.
I always found that oddity with Terminal really strange. Literally, everywhere else on a computer CTRL V, is your paste command, which never works in Terminal. I didn't know about the propriety Terminal paste command, so I started just doing right click paste via mouse.
It would be nice if Terminal could tow the line, and use the standard paste key combo, instead of being different, to be different. But hey, learned something new I guess, and I've been on Linux for a long time now lol.
It is because it is a Unix Terminal Emulator.
It emulates the very old days when a physical terminal was your U.I. with the computer.
How this code is structured is integral to how the emulator works ( ctrl key together with a letter generates ASCII control characters found by subtracting 64 from the upper case letter's ASCII value). It must adhere to the basic low-level input. So, this cannot be changed. But ctl+shift+v (or +c) could be added.
OK...told you i wasn't too good with Terminal.
Did what you said and PC will now no longer boot. Black screen. no getting out off it!
Tried via boot menu and still no.
**Not to worry I bit the bullet and did a clean install of 17.3. All working fine now.......... just going to take me about a week to find/adjust all the settings etc back to the way I like it.
Backed up all my data so nothing lost!
Thanks anyway.
That is... odd. Removing a Gnome Shell extension should not have any effect like that.
I think maybe the fresh reinstall did you some good since clearly something else was going quite wonky.
