Configuring a desktop I wanted icons to access various folders directly.
One can right click and create a link to a URL on desktop or create a launcher for thunar pointing at a directory.
A typical launcher would be this text, in a file with .desktop suffix.
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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=MY-FOLDER
Comment=open folder
Exec=thunar %U
Icon=folder
Path=/home/<username>/MY-FOLDER
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
They can only be seen looking at the desktop folder in thunar, some with filenames ending in ".desktop" .
That is pathological too, because the filename before the dot shouldn't matter and only the text in the Name field within the file should be shown.
This seems to have nothing to do with the "show default icons on desktop" setting.
It took me a long while to understand that this was just because some process had crashed - not a misconfiguration.
No reconfiguration needed, just log out and log back in.
Also, for some reason, a reference to "~", which should mean the user's own home folder, doesn't seem to work, the absolute path is needed.