Can't See Anything on my Desktop

Okay I know I'll slap myself in the future for saying this, but whenever I look at my desktop all I see is the background, but when I navigate to /home/user/desktop I see files there! I'm such a retard

centos wrote:Is there a chance that you're using Gnome-Shell?
Sorry I'm kind of lost I'm a newbie! also is it worth mentioning I can't drag anything onto my desktop?

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Downloading the updater can't tell you that it doesn't find the application.
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Here is one of them :
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My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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