[ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

[Paul Sutton]

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Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby <pramclub at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my
>> Documents folder.
>>
>> I tried rebooting, and still get the same.
>>
>> Everything seems to be working OK, except that the Desktop folder with a
>> few documents and a couple of shortcuts is gone.
>>
> 
> Somehow you've toggled the Nautilus setting "Use Home directory as Desktop"
> 
> Press Alt-F2 to bring up the Run Application dialogue box, type
> gconf-editor and click Run.
> 
> Browse to apps/nautilus/preferences and clear the tickbox "
> desktop_is_home_dir "
> 
> You will have to log out and back in to see the effect.
> 
> If you have ubuntu-tweak installed it's also present as a preference in there.
> 
> Jonathon
> 
what is ubuntu-tweak, i tried to search for it in synaptic and can't
find it, ?

Paul

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