Show / hide home , trash icon from desktop

• Options - icon_names

  • : show-home
  • : show-trash

• true : show , false : hide

$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons <icon_name> <true/false>

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If dock (panel) not updating (show /hide) app icon when it close or open

• edit below file

$ sudo nano /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/dash.js

• Update as following :

let firstIcon = firstButton.icon;

  // Enforce the current icon size during the size request
  firstIcon.setIconSize(this.iconSize);

• With :

  let firstIcon = firstButton.icon;

  // Enforce the current icon size during the size request
  if(firstIcon){
    firstIcon.setIconSize(this.iconSize);
  }

Then reload the gnome shell using Alt+F2 then r, the issue was gone!

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