Missing desktop icons

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Fresh installation of Ubuntu MATE 15.10 and there are no desktop icons at all. I had them the last time I installed.

This sounds like either:

  1. You had the default Desktop icons on. You can check at:

    System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> MATE Tweak
    and look at the Desktop pane. You can check or uncheck various icons for the desktop
    or

  2. You had Caja drawing icons on the desktop. This is configurable in dconf Editor (Here be dragons. dconf Editor is powerful so be careful). Go to:

    Applications -> System Tools -> dconf Editor

and go to

org -> mate -> desktop -> background

and see if

show-desktop-icons

is checked?
Try toggling the option to see if icons come back or not.

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