Desktop is not showing anything.

[abhaymaniyar]

If you open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run:

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nemo -n

do you now have a right-click context menu on the desktop ?

Is the desktop displaying the wallpaper ? .. and are you able to change the wallpaper ?

No not working and I am getting this output on running the command you said:

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nemo -n

(nemo:10134): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files
Initializing nemo-dropbox 2015.10.28

Is it normal?

[PCNetSpec]

Yeah ignore that gtk warning.

If you run:

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gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true

then

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nemo --quit

then restart nemo from the menu by opening a file manager (Files) instance.
Or by running:

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nohup nemo -n &

and close the terminal with the X button top right

Do you now have a right-click context menu on the desktop ?

[abhaymaniyar]

Yeah ignore that gtk warning.

If you run:

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gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true

then

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nemo --quit

then restart nemo from the menu by opening a file manager (Files) instance.
Or by running:

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nohup nemo -n &

and close the terminal with the X button top right

Do you now have a right-click context menu on the desktop ?

Not working.

[PCNetSpec]

Can you temporarily log off and log back onto the "Guest" account just to check if the desktop is working properly in that account ?

[abhaymaniyar]

Can you temporarily log off and log back onto the "Guest" account just to check if the desktop is working properly in that account ?

No! Not working in "Guest" account also.

[PCNetSpec]

Okay something is massively screwed up then

Maybe try reinstalling nemo

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall nemo nemo-data gir1.2-nemo-3.0 libnemo-extension1 python-nemo

[abhaymaniyar]

Okay something is massively screwed up then

Maybe try reinstalling nemo

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sudo apt-get install --reinstall nemo nemo-data gir1.2-nemo-3.0 libnemo-extension1 python-nemo

No sir! Not working.

[PCNetSpec]

You must have something else running then that's taking control of the desktop.

Can you run:

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ps aux >> ~/ps-aux-output.txt

you'll then find a file called ps-aux-output.txt in your home folder.

Can you upload its contents to a pastebin
https://pastebin.com/
and post a link back here.

also has the desktop EVER worked or was it broken on install ?

[abhaymaniyar]

Here is the link you asked for:
https://pastebin.com/vGZB4h7E

I don't know if it was working on installation as the first thing that I did was restore the home folder from previous machine so I don't know about that exactly.

[PCNetSpec]

Well I'm not seeing nemo running AT ALL

Open a terminal and run:

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nemo -n

DO NOT CLOSE THAT TERMINAL.

Now with that terminal still open, if you right-click on the desktop do you get a context menu ?

[abhaymaniyar]

Well I'm not seeing nemo running AT ALL

Open a terminal and run:

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nemo -n

DO NOT CLOSE THAT TERMINAL.

Now with that terminal still open, if you right-click on the desktop do you get a context menu ?

Still nothing. And when I am running "nemo -n" the command is doing nothing. Terminal just displays that "user@user" prompt instantly.

[PCNetSpec]

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nemo -n

won't return anything in the terminal
but after running it if you run:

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ps aux | grep [n]emo

you should see something like
mark      1941  0.1  1.3 1537408 98072 ?       Sl   11:45   0:15 nemo -n
If you do, then nemo is running .. and **should** be controlling the desktop.

[abhaymaniyar]

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nemo -n

won't return anything in the terminal
but after running it if you run:

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ps aux | grep [n]emo

you should see something like
mark      1941  0.1  1.3 1537408 98072 ?       Sl   11:45   0:15 nemo -n
If you do, then nemo is running .. and **should** be controlling the desktop.

Yes I am getting similar output but still no response on desktop.

[alynur]

Hi abhaymanlyar, does right click work on anything, other o/s or whatever? Could this be a keyboard problem?

[PCNetSpec]

Does hitting:-

Shift+F10

whilst on the desktop give you a right-click context menu ?