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Often when I start my PC the desktop icons do not display in the actual desktop.

To clarify, my shortcut launchers do not appear on my desktop but of course Nautilus and Thunar show them in the folder: ~/Desktop. The missing items include launchers I created or were created for me by apps and also "Rubbish Bin" and my "Home" folder icon which was created through settings.

To date I have had to reboot or log out and re-login to fix. The problem repeated this morning on start-up up from cold.

This is slow because I have startup background apps including: Conky, Dropbox, Mega and Universal Media Server.

Is there a quicker way?

Note: Possibly related but I continue to get strange behaviour whenever I edit a desktop launcher or create a new one. A bug registered as Bug #1878392

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  • Could you explain what you meant by "the desktop icons do not display in Nautilus"? They don't show up in Nautilus (aka the 'Files' application) or doesn't show up on the actual desktop? (Note that unlike some of the older releases, Nautilus does not handle desktop icons in 20.04, they're handled by a GNOME extension.)
    – pomsky
    Jul 24, 2020 at 10:59
  • Apologies. I did not realise that Nautilus is not responsible for the desktop. To clarify, my shortcut launchers do not appear on my desktop but of course Nautilus and Thunar show them in the folder: ~/Desktop. The missing items include launchers I created or were created for me by apps and also "Rubbish Bin" and my "Home" folder icon which was created through settings. The problem repeated this morning on start-up up from cold. My start up apps also include conky.
    – user824808
    Jul 25, 2020 at 10:37

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Method 1 here: How to restart GUI on Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa provides a faster workaround to this bug.

While logged in to your GNOME desktop press Alt + F2 key combination. Into the Enter a Command box type r and press Enter. This also works in 16.04 and 18.04 and doesn't force close any open windows or log out.

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