I have installed nemo file manager and wanted to enable desktop icons.
As you can see on the screenshot the desktop is looking like a normal window.
So how to fix that? I'm running elementary OS Freya.
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Looks like your desktop is enable. Can you be a bit clearer of what you want to achieve?– shrestha_ajCommented Jan 4, 2016 at 16:53
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3I thought it's clear! you can see that the desktop is looking like a normal window and not full screen– NaheelCommented Jan 4, 2016 at 16:54
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There is a decision by elementary os to enable client-side decorations which affect windows not aware of that. See GTK+ Incorrect Window Size
This is tested to work for Freya in VBox:
GTK_CSD="" nemo
So modify exec line in the autostart file
/etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop , as below:
Exec=sh -c "GTK_CSD=\"\" nemo -n"
or
Exec=sh -c "GTK_CSD='' nemo -n"
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1wonderful! it worked like charm! but I changed the desktop file to: sh -c "GTK_CSD="" nemo" %U and autostart desktop: sh -c "killall nemo && GTK_CSD="" nemo" and still getting that window on login– NaheelCommented Jan 6, 2016 at 15:40
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@Naheel, good, I will check where the cmd of nemo for session start. So we can change it without that kill cmd.– user.dzCommented Jan 6, 2016 at 15:57
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@Naheel, your issue is with the
""escaping, see my edit, please if it works for you, check the accept flag, see elementaryos.stackexchange.com/help/someone-answers– user.dzCommented Jan 6, 2016 at 23:54
Go to:
/usr/share/applications/nemo.desktopFor this you need administrator privilege, and change:
Exec = nemo --no-desktop %UAlso check in
~/.local/share/applications/folder. If there is nemo file, make the same changes.
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1You can try to run this command in your terminal: gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false Commented Jan 4, 2016 at 20:10
I am new to Elementary and wanted my beloved OS X-Desktop back, so I tried this. Sadly, changing the nemo-autostart.desktop as mentioned above, somehow does not work for me. Launching it with GTK_CSD="" nemo from the terminal works fine though. Do you have any suggestions?
The same in Loki:
Inspired by a comment by shrestha-aj under other answer:
gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false
In Dconf Editor:
