(Shows the newly-activated nemo desktop superimposed on top of the now-unusable nautilus desktop): If you don't do this, you'll get a weird desktop with unusable nautilus desktop icons covered up by usable nemo desktop icons, as shown a couple images down. This turns OFF the nautilus desktop icons so that we can just have the nemo desktop icons instead. Inside this program, click the slider to turn off "Desktop Icons", as shown below. Press your Super key ( Windows key on a PC keyboard, or Command key on a Mac running Linux), then type in "extensions", and click the Extensions program: You must also change a setting in the new "Extensions" program which we just installed (or "activated", maybe?-I'm not sure) above with sudo apt install gnome-tweak-tool. (I can't remember if this is required for Ubuntu 18.04 too or not, but I had to do it on Ubuntu 20.04) If on Ubuntu 20.04, you must also do this: Nemo-desktop& # We use `&` here to run it in the background # Start up the nemo desktop to allow nemo to control the desktop icons too # And install this on Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04 # Then also install these tools so we can adjust some settings next Xdg-mime default sktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search We will install nemo, make it the default, let it control desktop icons too, and disable Nautilus's (the default Ubuntu file manager's) ability to control desktop icons. To use Nemo instead of Nautilus as your default file manager, including to manage desktop icons, do: For Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 (for Ubuntu 22.04, see here) The main source where I first learned most of these details, starting with Ubuntu 18.04, was this article by Abhishek Prakash:
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