Well renaming $HOME is questionable, at least, depending on how you made it.
And the names of usual folders inside $HOME follow some conventions ( XDG,
freedesktop ) which are expected by your desktop environment and system.
It's probably your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file which has been emptied
after such renaming.
By default it looks like :
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Download"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
If you only renamed the $HOME folder then you'll have to replace
$HOME/
by
/home/new_name_for_user/
If you also renamed one or all of those 8 usual and conventional folders,
you'll have to replace
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
by
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/new_name_for_user/new_name_for_desktop"
and for each renamed folder.
This mechanic is handled at start of session by xdg-user-dirs / xdg-
user-dirs-gtk
Folder for $HOME is expected to be the user's name, in lower case
letters, as given by command
id
The matching of user's name + « real » name + other info about one user
+ place for his $HOME + uid + primary gid is stored into the file
/etc/passwd you may look at it using
grep -E :[0-9]{4}: /etc/passwd
which will show you only the « human » users on your system ( those with
uid ≥ 1000 )
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Renaming home folders corrupts side panel behavior
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