Description of problem: I noticed how my first user account made in the installation ended up having all the folders in $HOME put on the desktop after logging in to Cinnamon, but if I create a new user account and login to that I only see Computer, Home, Network and Trash bin on the desktop. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.6.1 How reproducible: I've only seen this once. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Burn the beta2 iso to a USB stick. 2. Reboot into the installation. 3. Choose to install MATE and Cinnamon as desktop environments. 4. Login to the MATE desktop and then logout to login to Cinnamon. 5. After logging in you'll see all the above mentioned folders right on the desktop.
Looking in the Home folder shows all these folders as well. It's as if the folders got copied to the desktop like a shortcut. The thing is, I didn't make any such setting in the installation.
Due to the unprecise failure description i was not able to recreate this problem. There are to many informations missing... - which iso (flavor) and architecture did you use? - did you enable online media whilst installation? - did you install Mate and Cinnamon whilst the initial installation or later after the system was full setup? If yes, what is the other DE? - which option did you chose when you selected Cinnamon: Cinnamon or Cinnamon (software rendering)? As said not reproducible under following constellation: - Mageia-9-beta2-x86_64 - no online media enabled whilst installation - only selected Cinnamon, Mate, console tools and configuration pattern in installer - After installation: booting into Mate (all fine), logout, login with Cinnamon (all fine)
Ever confirmed: 1 => 0Status: NEW => UNCONFIRMED
Created attachment 13880 [details] Cinnamon desktop, 1 user, showing duplicated Computer & Home icons Looking at this on a Cauldron system, only 1 user, Cinnamon, I find the desktop icons wrong. See the attachment. 'Computer' [Cyfrifiadur & computer.desktop] and 'Home' [Cartref & user-home.desktop] are shown twice, once with a conventional icon which opens a Nemo window; once with a document icon which demands whether to execute it, and if you do, opens a PcManFM window. The latter are superfluous. After this comment, I will see what happens after adding a user.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
How where you able to reproduce this? Did you install Mate/Cinnamon additionally to an already existing DE?
Or is it maybe locale/language related? I installed it with german locale...
Created attachment 13881 [details] Showing Cinnamon desktop icons for a second user First thing re comment 3: I overlooked that Network also is shown twice [Rhwydwaith & network.desktop]. The two icons 'Common' & 'Editfile' are shortcuts I added as the 1st user. No HOME subdirectories. Now to this screenshot after adding a second user: it shows correctly just the basic icons. No sign of Kristoffer's complaint, but this is on an established system, not one newly installed. Nor did I pass via Mate first. @Kristoffer It looks as if you used the Beta2 Classic ISO. You could be more exact about the problem. Does it only happen if you pass via Mate before Cinnamon? Reproduceable if you do? Not if you login into Cinnamon directly? CC'ing Ben who is good at this sort of thing.
@sturmvogel Unsure to whom comment 4, comment 5 addressed. It is true my system is nominally Welsh language, which means most things are shown in English. That may explain the duplicated desktop icons for the 1st user - but why not the 2nd?
> @Kristoffer > It looks as if you used the Beta2 Classic ISO. > You could be more exact about the problem. Does it only happen if you pass > via Mate before Cinnamon? Reproduceable if you do? Not if you login into > Cinnamon directly? I logged out of Cinnamon and logged into MATE and the issue is seen here in MATE as well.
I can see that once you have extra .desktop entries in ~/Desktop, they will show up on all desktops. You can just delete them, though it should not be necessary. One check we should have made when the desktop displayed unexpected icons: $ ls -al ~/Desktop Given my own different experience comment 3 (+6), this does look like a Cinnamon thing: I use it rarely. As if something gets added in ~/Desktop when it is first run. sturmvogel's comment 5 about language may have something to do with it. I mentioned earlier CC'in Ben; apparently I did not. Doing now. @Kristoffer Can you try again from the latest ISO. If you see the problem again, do both the 'ls' command shown above, and attach a screenshot. Concentrate on Cinnamon.
Summary: First user account gets all the folders spread out on the desktop, but a newer user account doesn't => Cinnamon: First user account gets all the $HOME folders on the desktop, but a newer user account doesn'tCC: (none) => westel
will have a look later. I have the beta2 isos floating around, and rc1, so can compare. @ Kristoffer: are you using an i586 or x86_64 install. unfortunately, there are differences, some issues show up in the i586 that are not present in x86_64 :( I note that you have indicted the the bug is for x86_64, but I would like to be sure.
installed a mate & cinn dual x86_64 system from beta2. (NZ English) logged into mate first. logged out and choose cinnamon as DE. logged in, no extraneous desktop icons: Computer, User home Directory, Network, Rubbish bin, Join Mageia Community. will try i586. @ Kristoffer, did you format "/home" partition?
installed a mate & cinn dual i586 system from beta2. (NZ English) logged into mate first. logged out and choose cinnamon as DE. logged in, no extraneous desktop icons: Computer, User home Directory, Network, Rubbish bin, Join Mageia Community. ?
(In reply to Ben McMonagle from comment #10) > will have a look later. > > I have the beta2 isos floating around, and rc1, so can compare. > > @ Kristoffer: are you using an i586 or x86_64 install. x86_64 install
This looks a Kristoffer special, nobody else can create the problem. It looks to be Cinnamon related. I do not think the initial passage via Mate was relevant. (In reply to sturmvogel from comment #4) [Re my previous comment 3] > How where you able to reproduce this? Did you install Mate/Cinnamon > additionally to an already existing DE? I omitted to answer this: I have a multi-desktop Cauldron system based on an upgraded Mageia 8. So no ISO involved. My problem of duplicated (but not exactly) Computer, Network & Home icons was not the same as K's. @Kristoffer Can you try again from the latest ISO. Concentrate on Cinnamon. If you see the problem again: - Say what ISO and what language - Post the result of: $ ls -al ~/Desktop - Attach a screenshot.
Closing as OLD, because it is 10 months since the last comment, most of cauldron has changed and no one confirmed this issue.
Status: UNCONFIRMED => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => OLD