I have had this happen You have to add that line SHMConfig to the options section of xorg.conf then reboot.
I am asuming that the mouse pad works perfectly for other users? Cheers Chris T On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 15:16 +1200, Andrew Packer wrote: > I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy on a Dell D520 laptop and have come up > with a baffling problem. Sorry for a bit of an essay here. > > Last night, after a bit of misbehaviour of my touchpad (it suddenly > started selecting items even though the tapping function, I thought, had > been disabled), I exited X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. > > Since then my desktop shows everything in my home folder > (/home/[my-user-id]). > > /home/[my-user-id]/Desktop contains the same files it did before the > incident. > > Googling hasn't been much help. Whatever I found suggested one should > edit /home/[my-user-id]/.config/user-dirs.dirs so that the line > > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" > > would read just like that and not, for example, > > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" > > I found that line correct in the first instance, but tried, as root, > switching it back and forth (restarting Nautilus each time). That > changed nothing. > > I also ran gconf-editor as root and made sure that > in /apps/nautilus/preferences, the desktop_is_home_dir box was unticked. > It was; I tried ticking it and restarting Nautilus, but that didn't > help, nor did unticking it again and restarting Nautilus. > > When I login to this machine as my wife, her desktop looks as it should, > displaying only the files in /home/[her-user-id]/Desktop. > > It seems to me that a configuration file must have got corrupted > somewhere, but where? > > I don't know whether it's related, but when I try to view the touchpad's > settings via System > Preferences > Touchpad, I get an error message as > follows: > > GSynaptics couldn't initialize. > You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use > GSynaptics > > But I can't find any "SHMConfig" in xorg.conf at all. > > I've run memtest86+ overnight and revealed no errors (I'm paranoid about > RAM problems as I've had them with many other machines, but not this > one, yet). > > Can anyone offer any suggestions? My desktop is unusable when > everything from /home/[my-user-id] is on it. Thank you in advance. > > =====Andrew > > >
