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To remove a desktop item (In the process of replacing nautilus with an older version, a "Computer" icon appeared on the desktop), I used dconf-editor to toggle the entry show-desktop-icons in org.gnome.desktop.background.

This worked, but after a reboot, the background (previously a picture) does not show. Instead: a black screen is shown.

Reading the configuration in dconf, the values set are:

color-shading-type: solid
draw-background: true
picture-opacity: 100
picture-options: zoom
picture-uri: file:///usr/share/backgrounds/Last_breath%E2%80%A6_by_Francisco_Javier_Epinoza_P%C3%A9rez.jpg
primary-color: #000000
secondary-color: #000000
show-desktop-icons: false

I've checked the location of the file: it exists as expected.

System Settings > Appearance also reports this background.

How to re-enable the background image?

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  • You really aught to upgrade to a supported version of Ubuntu.
    – Seth
    Apr 1, 2014 at 17:09

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Apparently, dconf misbehaves on show-desktop-icons and also disables the background image. Hence one has to set the flag show-desktop-icons back to true.

This brings back the desktop item, which one can correctly (i.e. not messing with the background image) disable with gnome-tweak-tool, section "Desktop".

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  • Unfortunately, this did not work on the exact same issue in gnome-flashback Oct 21, 2014 at 7:55

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