Re: Desktop suddenly covered in icons for everything in my home folder

[Graeme Nichols <gnichols tpg com au>]

ritz wrote:
> Hello
>
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:43 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > Daniel James wrote:
> >
> > Hello Daniel,
> >
> > > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:39 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Suddenly my desktop became covered in icons for everything in my home 
> > > > folder.
> > > >
> > > > My problem is how to set it back to what is in my Desktop folder.
> > > Open a terminal and type this:
> > >
> > > gconftool-2 --set
> > > --type=bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir false
> > >
> > > make sure that is all written on one line..
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Daniel
> > I did as you said but it has made no difference to my desktop even after
> > logging out and back in. Still covered in all the rubbish from my home
> > directory. I need to set the desktop to show the shortcuts that are in
> > my ~/Desktop directory. On F7 there was a utility, under preferences if
> > I remember correctly, that I could run to set this but I cannot find
> > anything on my F8 install.
> bloody odd. any messages logged to ~/.xsession-errors ?
Hello Ritz,

There are a couple of errors there but nothing to do with this problem 
I'm afraid.

Thanks

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Kind regards,

Graeme Nichols.
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