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Unable to disable Desktop Icons extension

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The Desktop Icons GNOME extension in Ubuntu 19.10 is not working properly. Double clicking an icon produces a notification saying there is an error:

Execution of "PATH_TO_FILE"

Command not found

I have found another desktop icons extension that works much better. However, Ubuntu does not let me turn off or delete the default extension, and it interferes with the new extension. Using the Synaptic Package Manager says it will also remove ubuntu-desktop and ubuntu-desktop-minimal. Is there a way to remove the extension safely?

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answered 3 Years ago oredoise · Accepted Answer

The pre-installed system extension 'Desktop Icons' keeps its config files in the /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/desktop-icons@csoriano/ directory. If you're absolutely sure, you can disable the extension by removing this directory. It is highly recommended to just rename the directory so that if anything goes wrong you would be able to recover by reverting to the original name.

Note that this directory would most certainly be re-created after an upgrade to an associated package. So you would have to repeat the renaming part after each such update.