[GTALUG] Heads up: Ubuntu 21.10 kills your desktop icons

[Howard Gibson]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 23:49:45 -0400
"Stewart C. Russell via talk" <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> GNOME have finally made good on their threat to remove all support for 
> icons on the Desktop. Any files in ~/Desktop no longer produce icons on 
> the screen. The GNOME Shell plugin that was the last thing that allowed 
> it is no longer supported. GNOME Shell itself seems broken: what was the 
> Shell Preferences browser page now bring up a 404 page from gitlab.


Stewart,

   I hate desktop icons and I hate Gnome.  I am not sure how to react
to your post.  :)

   FVWM does not support desktop icons and I love it.  XFCE and LXDE
probably do support them, and they make nice desktops.   

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