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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.

nemo as desktop manager screenshot

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  • Looks like your desktop is enable. Can you be a bit clearer of what you want to achieve?
    – shrestha_aj
    Jan 4, 2016 at 16:53
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    I thought it's clear! you can see that the desktop is looking like a normal window and not full screen
    – Naheel
    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"

enter image description here

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    wonderful! 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
    – Naheel
    Jan 6, 2016 at 15:40
  • @Naheel, good, I will check where the cmd of nemo for session start. So we can change it without that kill cmd.
    – user.dz
    Jan 6, 2016 at 15:57
  • @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.dz
    Jan 6, 2016 at 23:54
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  1. Go to:

    /usr/share/applications/nemo.desktop

  2. For this you need administrator privilege, and change:

    Exec = nemo --no-desktop %U

  3. Also check in ~/.local/share/applications/ folder. If there is nemo file, make the same changes.

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  • no difference at all
    – Naheel
    Jan 4, 2016 at 17:15
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    You can try to run this command in your terminal: gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons false
    – shrestha_aj
    Jan 4, 2016 at 20:10
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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?

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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:

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