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Bug#877307: marked as done (upgrade-reports: Jessie -> Stretch: Gnome tweak tool would not enable desktop icons until "Files" removed from "Startup Applications")

Your message dated Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:55:37 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #877307,
regarding upgrade-reports: Jessie -> Stretch: Gnome tweak tool would not enable desktop icons until "Files" removed from "Startup Applications"
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Package: upgrade-reports
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I just did a Debian8 to Debian9 upgrade on a particularly old and crufty (initial install back in days of Potato?) machine.
No significant issues (just the usual handful of /etc files to update with minor local mods after accepting the new versions ), except one thing perhaps worth mentioning:

Having been a user of Gnome "Flashback" previously, after playing with "modern" Gnome on a fresh Debian9 install on another machine I decided to make the move on this upgrading machine too.

All seemed well, except that gnome-tweak-tool would not enable the "Icons on Desktop" mode I like.
I'd had no problems enabling this on the fresh Debian9 install, but on the upgraded machine no amount of toggling, restarting, or using `gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true` would affect the desktop.  (It was certainly possible to toggle the gsettings true/false state though).

A breakthrough was achieved by removing "Files" from the list of "Startup Applications" also in gnome-tweak-tool: on next login, there were my desktop icons.

I'm not sure what had put "Files" into my "Startup Applications"; whether it's a legacy of the previous Gnome flashback use (although I don't remember having a file dialog appear on login) or it was put there on my first login to the "modern" Gnome shell.

No idea either why removing it had the effect it did; guessing the nautilus launched there might somehow have been racing with or conflicting with the `nautilus-desktop` apparently started to manage the desktop.  I don't currently have access to the freshly installed Debian9 machine to dig into what's different about the setups, if anything.  In any case I have no desire to try and put "Files" back into "Startup Applications" as with a Desktop covered with stuff there's little value in also having a file dialog shown on login.

Just to be clear: on the fresh install toggling "icons on desktop" in gnome-tweak-tool worked fine.

Mainly reporting this as googling suggests there's a few other "desktop icons don't work after an upgrade, and gnome-tweak-tool's toggle doesn't fix it" complaints out there and maybe this'll help someone.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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Dear reporter,

Thanks for taking the time long ago to submit your upgrade report. I'm
closing these reports now because the Debian releases they were reported
against have reached their end-of-life (some long ago).

Unfortunately it's possible that the report I'm now closing may still
have relevant information for the current release (bullseye). If you
believe that's the case, don't hesitate to reopen the bug, retitle it
and provide further information and it will be seen during the current
freeze period of Debian.

Paul

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