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Xubuntu 16.04--Default desktop icons suddenly disappeared

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I've been doing research for a couple hrs now to solve this problem and have found nothing that works.
Ex: this does not work for me: xUbuntu Default desktop Icons do not display?

Here is a screenshot of my Display settings:

Notice that even though I have Home, Filesystem, Trash, and all Removable Devices selected to show up, none of them do. How do I make them show back up again like they used to?

Note: I use nemo as my default file manager; I don't know if that's related. All of this began when my computer went to sleep while it was connected to a network drive, and I woke it back up again. This caused it to freeze, so I logged off then back on, then was forced to restart. See my comment on that under this answer here: https://askubuntu.com/a/764120/327339. Upon restarting, and after many restarts and completely turning it off since then, my default desktop icons remain disappeared.

Also note that even the icons you see on my desktop above do NOT show up when I first boot. They only appear AFTER I open up my nemo file manager at least one time after booting.

This does NOT work either: Xubuntu 16.04 all icons disappeared after update.

Nor does this: https://askubuntu.com/a/302022/327339

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answered 2 Years ago finatch · Accepted Answer

Ok, I tried a whole bunch of things to my own question, over the course of about 2 hrs, so I'm not 100% sure something I did before this wasn't part of the solution, but this worked for me:

In a terminal, do:

rm -R ~/.cache/sessions/*

xfdesktop

sudo reboot

Source: Desktop icons not showing up in xubuntu (and I cant right click on the desktop)

Once I did the above and my icons all came back, I changed my background back to the original one, as it was one of the fancy photos after doing the commands above. Here's what it looks like now:

I think I also did the following things before doing the commands above, but I do not think they were necessary. Nevertheless, I'll include them here for completeness' sake in case they were unknowingly part of the solution:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall xubuntu-desktop

sudo apt-get install --reinstall tango-icon-theme tango-icon-theme-common

...along with many restarts as I tried various things.
And I uninstalled nautilus too via sudo apt-get remove nautilus, as I had previously installed it as well.