[SOLVED] A new desktop has appeared on my Arch (I want it to start)

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 20:48:18

Good afternoon friends. I have a problem and I need help to solve it. On my Arch Linux, I'm not sure why (an update?) A new "desktop" appeared. In the tree of my "Home" there is now this new desktop and the old desktop (desktop, in Portuguese). Well, now when Arch initializes, only the 2 or 3 icons of this new desktop appear on the desktop. If I click on any program that is still on the taskbar, the system understands that it is a newly installed program. However, if I open my file manager and open an old desktop (desktop) everything is there, folders that were on the desktop, icons, everything. How do I restore startup with the desktop that until yesterday was the only one I had?

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In short, I can only access my old desktop (old until yesterday) by accessing it through the file manager, inside the "desktop" folder. The "new desktop that came up shows an empty area, as if it had just installed Arch Linux.
I appreciate the help I get

Last edited by Luckylinux (2021-04-01 23:54:32)

seth · 2021-04-01 21:37:58

What desktop environment (gnome, kde,.…) do you use and what's the output of

localectl
locale
locale -a

?

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 21:51:04

Hello, i use Cinnamon

 Locale

LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="pt_BR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="pt_BR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=pt_BR.UTF-8
LC_ALL= 


Locale -a

C
POSIX
pt_BR
pt_BR.iso88591
pt_BR.utf8


Localectl

System Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
                  LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt
       VC Keymap: n/a
      X11 Layout: n/a

seth · 2021-04-01 21:57:44

The old directory is the localized one and a non-localized version showed up?
Did you check Cinnamon's language settings (if it's anything like gnome it'll likely ignore the system locale and gnome recently seems to have a bug where it just adds english as a second locale…)

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 22:00:50

Thanks for helping me. Windows fast boot is not activated. I even use a dual boot with Windows. But I had this same problem with dual boot with Slackware. What should I do?

seth · 2021-04-01 22:02:30

Errr… that's my signature ;-)
It's not related to the topic at hand.

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 22:05:44

I installed it months ago, normally, all in pt_BR. As far as I know Cinnamon is configured like this. Yesterday I thought it was strange because when I started the Thunderbir it opened as if it were the first time I was using it, but I was still able to start the old desktop (visually speaking, on the desktop, with icons, icons on the taskbar), only today, when starting Arch, did it open with an "empty desktop", with nothing as it normally is on the native desktop in the installation. Through the file manager, Nemos, I can access the "Desktop" (desktop in Portuguese), everything is there and everything works, but Arch initializes directed to this new desktop.

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 22:06:49

Ahahahahahh .... ok i'm sorry

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 22:21:11

In locale.gen only pt_BR is set. I always comment (#) en_US when I install. The new "desktop" appeared, but the entire system remains in Portuguese. Only the workspace is gone and the applications behave as if they have just been installed.

seth · 2021-04-01 22:27:23

the applications behave as if they have just been installed

That would suggest a different $HOME?

echo $HOME
ls /home
ls -l  $HOME # we're only interested in the lines for the old and new "Desktop"

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 22:56:23

$ echo $HOME
/home/luckyarchlinux

* The home is the same "luckyarchlinux" 

$ ls /home

lost+found  luckyarchlinux

$ ls -l  $HOME 
total 411684
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  26074890 mar 31 22:43  1.mkv
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users 105841902 mar 15 15:08 '2021-03-15 15-03-01.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  13997833 mar 15 18:09 '2021-03-15 18-08-24.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  87038121 mar 15 19:10 '2021-03-15 19-06-28.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  45167163 mar 29 22:44 '2021-03-29 22-41-43.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  76260818 mar 29 23:31 '2021-03-29 23-27-42.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users   1246057 abr  1 13:19 '2021-04-01 13-19-00.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  18452155 abr  1 13:21 '2021-04-01 13-20-43.mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  12191844 mar 31 21:45  2.mkv
drwxr-xr-x 11 luckyarchlinux users      4096 abr  1 19:09 'Área de trabalho'
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 21 06:00  aui_packages
drwxr-xr-x  4 luckyarchlinux users      4096 abr  1 16:38  Desktop
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 22 10:31  Diogenes
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 mar 29 12:45  Documentos
drwxr-xr-x  6 luckyarchlinux users      4096 mar 29 14:07  Downloads
drwxr-xr-x  5 luckyarchlinux users      4096 jan 22 11:17  gnome-internet-radio-locator
drwxr-xr-x  5 luckyarchlinux users      4096 fev 26 13:29  Imagens
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users    112613 jan 12 09:52  index.html
drwxr-xr-x  2 luckyarchlinux users      4096 mar 19 00:18  LEGEND
drwxr-xr-x  2 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 21 09:39  Modelos
drwxr-xr-x  2 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 21 09:39  Música
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 dez 19 12:46 'Problemas com o Pacnew'
drwxr-xr-x  2 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 21 09:39  Público
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  15303732 abr  1 13:25 'SBPRJ 1mkv'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users  19453092 abr  1 13:37  SBPRJ.m4v
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users    156840 mar 29 11:30 'Screenshot 2021-03-29 11-30-02.png'
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users    156850 mar 29 11:30 'Screenshot 2021-03-29 11-30-29.png'
drwxr-xr-x 12 luckyarchlinux users      4096 fev 17 10:18 'Sistemas Virtual box'
drwxr-xr-x  7 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 21 14:02 'Sons do Arch'
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 out 22 20:19  Tor
-rw-r--r--  1 luckyarchlinux users         0 dez 27 20:49  vbeinfo
drwxr-xr-x  3 luckyarchlinux users      4096 mar 30 00:03  Vídeos
drwxr-xr-x  4 luckyarchlinux users      4096 jan 31 11:55 'VirtualBox VMs'

Last edited by Luckylinux (2021-04-01 22:56:54)

Luckylinux · 2021-04-01 23:25:56

Friend. I am immensely grateful for the generosity and patience in helping me. I think it will be simpler, after all, to re-install Arch and try to use KDE or XFCE, as this is the second time I have the same problem in 8 months, using Cinnamon. Thank you very much.

seth · 2021-04-02 05:59:47

Again: Check the cinnamon language settings.
To downforce this behavior, you could probably just create a symlink Desktop -> 'Área de trabalho' (so you've both, but they're the same)
Not sure how this could reset application configs ("applications behave as if they have just been installed").

Luckylinux · 2021-04-03 12:47:08

Yes, friend Seth. I came back to give you feedback (your generosity and dedicated attention to me). I put Arch with Cinnamon (I really like Cinnamon) and in this installation I was careful to check all the "locale / pt_BR", one by one. I will be attentive to any details in the updates. I don't rest until I can understand why a problem like this (it doesn't seem to me to be a "bug", I have the intuition that some detail that may have escaped me). Again, thank you so much Seth

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[SOLVED] A new desktop has appeared on my Arch (I want it to start)

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