<quote who="Erik de Castro Lopo">

> Jeremy Visser wrote:
> 
> > This shouldn't normally happen. I believe opening up gconf-editor, going
> > to apps → nautilus → preferences, and unticking the desktop_is_home_dir
> > option should fix it.
> 
> Nope, didn't fix it.

That sounds seriously broken. It's certainly not the default upstream or in
Ubuntu, so there's something very odd going on there.

> > If that doesn't work, make sure ~/Desktop exists.
> 
> It does.
> 
> However, in the preferences section you mentioned, there was a
> show_desktop item. Unticking that fixed the problem. So thanks Jeremy for
> a nudge in the right direction.

That's actually a bad fix, because it means that Nautilus is no longer
handling the desktop at all (ie. it doesn't create a desktop window). If you
*never* do any file stuff on the desktop then you're okay, but it's not the
best way to deal with this in general.

- Jeff

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