Home directory files shown on Desktop

[Adam Mercer]

Hi

This afternoon I rebooted my Laptop running Ubuntu 19.04, with the
default Gnome Desktop, and when I logged back in all the files in my
home directory were shown on the desktop:

https://imgur.com/a/zVYt69A

I have all the check boxes in the Desktop Icons extension disabled.
Whenever I interact with my home directory, in the terminal for
example, the system hangs and then the icons refresh.

Any idea what could be causing this? And any suggestions on how to not
show these on the Desktop?

Cheers

Adam