Icons disappeared from the desktop -- how to get them back?

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Today I noticed that all icons had disappeared from the desktop. However, directory ~/Desktop seems to contain the relevant files – mostly ending with “.desktop” plus some others. I am not aware of any user-made change that could have caused the disappearance of the icons. Any ideas how to get them back again?

“ls_release -a” returned the following:
“No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy”

My desktop is the LXQt and the taskbar is working normally.

After noticing the problem I clicked “Apply Full Upgrade” and entered the password to get the system up to date, and rebooted. However, no change.

Any helpful hints, please?

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This sounds kind of odd. Let’s wait to see if anyone else chimes in with the same problem.

I can’t think of anything that would cause this. If there was, I imagine it would be with PCManFM-Qt.

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Have you tried changing the icon set and applying the changes to see if they re-appear ?

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Thanks for your replies. Changing the icon theme or other similar settings did not help. However, opening the ~/Desktop folder in a normal window provides a nice work-around.

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If you right click the desktop, is “Hide Desktop Items” selected?

The other thing is if you run ps aux | grep /usr/bin/pcmanfm-qt, do you find the process /usr/bin/pcmanfm-qt --desktop --profile=lxqt?

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Thanks a lot, @thedoctar ! That “Hide Desktop Items” was probably checked by some haphazard right-click on the desktop.

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