No desktop Icons

[marietta_greg]

Hello, I found and tried he TS steps in http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 87#p620187 but run into roadblocks.
In that post the following were suggested:

pgrep compiz at command line does nothing ... just right back to cmd prompt
mateconftool-2 -g /apps/caja/preferences/show_desktop --> I get command not found (!?) So I attempted to install it

sudo apt-get install mateconftool-2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mateconftool-2

update did not help to find the package.

Also (related?) If I click menu then Computer, Home Folder or Desktop Caja appears briefly (1 second) then closes. Fortunately I also have Thunar installed so I can go find it and pull up a file manager, but this isn't how menu is supposed to work.

Finally, desktop, R-click does nothing. Shouldn't there be a context menu that comes up including create file, create launcher, change desktop settings, etc.?

Thanks for the help.

[kukamuumuka]

It sounds that there is a configuration problem or caja problem. If it is a caja problem, kill caja

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killall caja

If that does not help, make a test user and see how it´s desktop works.

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sudo useradd -m testuser -s /bin/bash
sudo passwd testuser

[Monsta]

mateconftool-2 -g /apps/caja/preferences/show_desktop --> I get command not found (!?)

That's some horribly outdated thread. MATE migrated to GSettings in 1.6.
Use this:

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gsettings get org.mate.background show-desktop-icons