Desktop environment mate on ubuntu distro - cant add anything to desktop

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Open isrgish opened 5 years ago

isrgish commented 5 years ago

I'm unable to add anything to the desktop. When I check in the desktop folder I see its there but nothing shows on the desktop.

How can I get the desktop to show what's on it?

sujitvasanth commented 5 years ago

open a terminal and type: caja --force-desktop

basically the mate desktop does not allow the root user to view the desktop. this is a historical feature that fixes a bug.

you can add the command to the startup program list

isrgish commented 5 years ago

What do you mean by the startup program list ?

Also is there a way to prevent caja from starting when I do "caja --force-desktop"

sujitvasanth commented 5 years ago

looks in control centre --> startup applications then click add

I sent a screenshot screenshot_20190301-125619

isrgish commented 5 years ago

OK I got it.

Thanks a million.