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Ubuntu 21.04 remove trash, user and drive icon from desktop?

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I want to remove the trash icon, the home icon as well as the drives from my desktop. I've removed them in Ubuntu 20.04, but after updating, they were there again:

I tried:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.dash-to-dock show-mounts false

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons show-trash false

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons show-home false

No such schema “org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons”

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false

No output

But all icons are still there. Any ideas how to fix this?

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answered 2 Years ago pantkie · Accepted Answer

Thanks to @Levente's comment I found out the solution.

There is an application called "Extensions" which lets you manage the Gnome Extensions. You can just disable the pre-installed extension called "Desktop Icons NG (DING)" and the icons will disappear: