Screwed-up desktop in Gutsy

Brian Craft javaman67 at acd.net
Mon Oct 22 10:38:44 UTC 2007


Open the Gnome Configuration Editor and go
into:  /apps/nautilus/preferences      and uncheck   the
"desktop_is_home_dir"   option and see if that helps.

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Brian Craft

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On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 13:40 -0400, Pete Clapham wrote:

> Hi, all --
> 
> I just loaded Gutsy on my computer.  It seems to work OK -- except for
> one thing.  All of the files and directories in my home directory
> appear on the desktop!  There's a directory marked Directory that
> includes what it's supposed to (almost empty -- just a terminal), but
> a whole lot more stuff appears.  Any ideas why?
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Pete Clapham
> Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
> Cleveland State University
> Cleveland, Ohio, 44115
> 
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> 
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