How to make GNOME 3 Desktop icons to work as in
GNOME 2 on Debian GNU / Linux
If you're using
Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid, you have
already figured out GNOME3 settings to start GNOME in Classic mode
(like in GNOME 2), starts gnome in a mode where the desktop is not
showing the usual
Computer, Home, Trash etc.
Besides that in that strange back-compitability
Classic GNOME
mode its impossible to add any program as a link in desktop
like in the good old GNOME 2.
Thanksfully this abusive behaviour of the backwards compitability
mode is easily fixable by two simple steps, here they are:
1. Install gnome-tweak-tool - (Tool to adjust advanced
configuration settings for GNOME
root@debian:~# apt-get install
gnome-tweak-tool
2. Start gnome-tweak tool
Press
ALT+F2 and run
gnome-tweak-tool or run it via
xterm / gnome-terminal:
moonman@Moon:~$ gnome-tweak-tool
Change in Desktop,
Have file manager handle the desktop the
settings to
ON
Once the
Screenshot Handle Desktop is set to ON, further
drag and dropping any application to the Desktop will be
working.
Something really irritating is that launching applications in GNOME
3 does not work properly if you just press ALT+F2 and type in lets
say
gnome-terminal , to work around this weirdity you will
have to install
gnome-shell package.