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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