Hello All,
Well, after going back to W11 for a time, I decided to take another crack at Linux, and to my delight, I found a very nice EDA suite (KiCAD) and although it will not read the files of my old Windows EDA system, for new designs it will do well. I now have very few applications that need Windows to run, and I have a VM for those, but I admit the "crow" is starting to taste better as I use Zorin more.
So, a long intro to my questions: 1. No matter what changes I have made to grub to eliminate the long list of boot-up lines, it refuses to not show them. I have "quiet splash" enabled, but after several tries, grub still puts up everything, and oddly, initially the text is very large, then changes to very small. It's not a deal-breaker, it's just kind of annoying.
2. My desktop was showing all of my "Home" subfolders (not the home folder itself). When I went into appearances to remove these from displaying on my desktop, I found that none of them were listed as displayable - i.e. I couldn't unselect them, because they weren't in the list. I can turn all folder display off, there are a couple I'd like to keep. I can display/not display the actual home folder, but the subfolders are not selectable. Any ideas on this? I'm running Zorin 19.
Zorin 19 doesn't exist, do you mean Zorin 18?
You can open your "Desktop" folder in your Home folder and delete the folders you don't want to show on the desktop.
Edit: When the line of the Desktop in user-dirs.dirs is wrong, the folders on the desktop are not shown in the desktop folder. But you can click on the folders on the desktop to remove them.
Can you try the grub parameter loglevel=3?
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash loglevel=3"
(don't forget sudo -update-grub
run sudo update-grub)
What you are seeing is the early init process of the kernel loading - which is why the text size changes. It is in very basic graphics display, until the graphics stack fully initializes.
That means these messages are displayed prior to plymouth initializing, therefore before quiet parameter kicks in.
If you can relay what these messages say - we may be able to eliminate some of them by solving the cause - but the parameter of loglevel=3 above will suppress messages that are unimportant.
Zorin OS uses Gnome which eliminated Desktop icon support (after many blog posts complaining that 'users should never need icons cluttering up the desktop).
To add it back in, the ZorinGroup is using a Gnome Shell Extension.
What is your terminal output for:
cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
When You see that, can You press the Esc Key and see if it disappers?
I tried that, no luck.
OK, I tried the addition grub, no joy.
Here's the terminal output:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
Thanks for any help, but in reality, it's not a huge issue, I'm just surprised it hasn't been easier to resolve.
The first line in this file is wrong.
Open your file manager, press ctrl+h to show the hidden files and go the file
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
in your home folder.
The first line should look so, so you need to add Desktop at the end of the line:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
Keep all other lines of the file as they are.
Save the file and reboot.
When you try the commands Aravisian has given, run
sudo update-grub
afterwards, not 'sudo -update-grub', it is a typo.
Thank you for catching that.
I edited the above to prevent confusion, but we can leave the correction for the record.