I was using Ubuntu 20.04 with gnome and it worked perfectly for me. Now after upgrading to 22.04, my background is full of icons, those of the files and directories of my home directory: this is awful (to my taste). How can I get rid of them?
I tried the Settings/Appearance, un-ticked the "Display home directory", but this has no effect. I checked the Internet and indeed, I found many sites on which people are writing that this is the right way to go.
Moreover as I use multiple screens, sometimes (rather often), when I have a window open on a screen, when I go from one screen to an other, the icons in the background take the control: the window seems to be in the background of the icons and I can not click on the window to have it in the foreground. I have to click on its icon in the dock. So it appears to me to me that the new gnome is seriously bugged.
If this is relevant, I use Ubuntu 22.04 on a Dell Latitude 7490, the same laptop on which I was running 20.04 before.
Curiously, I do not find anything on the Internet (maybe I did not search enough or not the correct keywords) though I would be surprised that I am the only one to face this situation.
edit: I use the suggested answer that consists in editing .config/user-dirs.dirs and it works: I set the XDG_DESKTOP_DIR variable to an empty directory, and icons went away.
