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

From: Daniel James <daniel netbreeze com au>
To: Graeme Nichols <gnichols tpg com au>
Cc: gnome-list gnome org
Subject: Re: Desktop suddenly covered in icons for everything in my home folder
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:54:02 +1000

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

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