Re: changing the Desktop path

["Curtis C. Hovey" <sinzui cox net>]

On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:57, Justin Findlay wrote:
> I would like my desktop path to point to my home directory.  With
> nautilus-2.0.6 (redhat 8.0) this was possible to configure using the
> "prefrences" GUI.  In redhat 9 (nautilus-2.2.1) this option was removed
> from the GUI, but I discovered I could still add the line
> 
> <entry name="desktop_is_home_dir" mtime="1581714062" muser="justin" 
> type="bool" value="true"/>
> 
> to the prefrences configuration file and make it work.  Now with
> nautilus-2.4.0 (Fedora 1)  this is no longer possible as the file
> 
> $HOME/.gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml
> 
> is auto-rewritten and I cannot effect a manual change.  How can I make the
> desktop display my home directory?

run gconf-editor
check /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir

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