My Zorin OS 18.1 has started with the home folder showing on the desktop each time. I can not think of anything that I did to set it up this way . And more importantly I can't find a way to stop it.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Go in Zorin appearance and disable it in desktop tab
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Is in Zorin Appearance app at tab desktop your home folder enabled? Then disable it.
Okay... I'm too late... By the time I looked it up, wrote it down, and translated it, Nourpon had already beaten me to it.
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That would do it but it would also close all icons on the desk top. And the File/home is opening not in an icon but in an a full window and that is what I would like to stop.
Give us a screenshot when it happen to understand
and go in terminal and give me the output of
ls -la /home/tof/.config/autostart
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Don't disable show desktop icons, only uncheck the box for the home folder.
That sounds as if Nautilus (the file manager) is added to autostart as Nourpon wrote.
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No, when You unmark it like You see on my Picture only the Folder disappears - not Desktop Icons in common.
So, it opens in the File Manager after Start Up?
Yes, Every time the computer starts in the morning the file/home is opening in a full windows not an icon. And going into Appearance and disable the tab causes the loss of the 3 program icons i want on the desktop.
Please make a screenshot of the content of ~/.config/autostart (press ctrl+h to show the hidden files in your filemanager; ~ is a shortcut for your home folder) or show the terminal output of
ls ~/.config/autostart
What do you mean with
When you disable "show desktop icons", then the window with your home folder doesn't appear?
Can you perhaps also take a screenshot of your desktop after login that shows the unwanted window?
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That is a good Idea.
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