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Is it possible to have icons on the desktop with gnome-shell and wayland? I mean, it's only been possible on most GUI-based desktop OS's since the 1980's....
Under gnome-shell non-wayland, it can be enabled using gnome-tweak-tool > desktop settings, but would be great to get similar functionality under gnome-shell wayland.
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Last I heard this is not implemented upstream yet; afaik in X, nautilus basically has a transparent window running on top of the wallpaper and it doesn't/can't do that right now on Wayland.
I recall reading a bug report about it somewhere (either on Gnome or Ubuntu). I'll see if I can dig it back up. (want this working myself as well tbh)
EDIT:
Haven't found the bug report yet but I did find the mailing list on Fedora that I had encountered as well.
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/piperma … 25706.html
In 3.18 the message "Desktop icons only supported on X11. Desktop not created." is still present. If you read through the messages on that list you'll see they mention plans on separating the desktop part to a separate process so nautilus doesn't have to keep managing this.
Last edited by Omar007 (2015-10-10 14:01:47)
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