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

[ritz <khadgaray gmail com>]

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 ?


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