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desktop weird behavior re. icons not displaying properly and drag and drop hanging the UI

Ask Ubuntu Asked by quinta on January 29, 2021

I am transitioning from windows to ubuntu; I run 20.10 with Gnome in a partition of my disk.
I mount the windows ntfs partition’s on /home/myname

My windows desktop, where I have a lot of my stuff, is therefore accessible at
/home/myname/Users/myuser/Desktop

I configured in .config/user-dirs.dirs the desktop directory to /home/myname/Users/myuser/Desktop

Up to this point everything looks ok: all of my windows desktop’s files appear within ubuntu like this.

icons from my desktop

If I change an icon, for example of folder ‘Libro’, by editing the folder’s properties, it doesn’t change on the desktop but if I open a nautilus browser to that same directory, it correctly displays the new icon.

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this is the first weird behaviour

a second even worse behaviour is that, when I try to drag an icon to an app (for example a file to be attached to a thunderbird email) the mouse cursor becomes a closed hand (looks like a fist) and the computer hangs. the mouse is movable; if I close the notebook it suspends, when I reopen it, the only possibility is to enter the password in the lock screen; after the lock screen I get back to exactly the same point with the computer still hanging.

my only possibility is to abruptly power off and reboot.

I wonder if the cause of both behaviours can be an issue with permissions/file system mounting.

After some trial and error, in my /etc/fstab I entered

UUID=2E54F0D254F09E31 /media/myname ntfs rw,auto,user,fmask=111,dmask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
which works quite ok, except for the to issues above.

but if I look at mount, I obtain

/dev/sda2 on /media/myname type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096,user)

Here goes the question: may it really be an issue with the mounting of the filesystem ?
any hints on how to fix it ?

any help highly appreciated…

happy 2021!

One Answer

it was not an issue related to the filesystem but to the poor handling of Desktop by 20.10 the solution was to use the extension https://gitlab.com/rastersoft/desktop-icons-ng

BTW, I like tiny icons, so I had to redefine their size editing ./home/myname/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/enum.js

Answered by quinta on January 29, 2021

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