[lde4.1}Desk top missing

[Bart Silverstrim]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Bart,
>>> Not sure about how to do this.  What I did was to
>>> launch openoffice.org and a document from my
>> Documents
>>> folder and "save as" it to the Desktop in my old
>> home.
>>>  It did not copy to the GUI Desktop or file system
>>> Desktop as shown by ls -alh. I haven't yet
>> reviewed
>>> all your replies but will to see if you had more
>>> specific suggestions.  I think you did.
>> If it's saved to your old user's desktop, it would
>> be in 
>> "/home/oldusername/Desktop".
>>
> This is how I did it; in my old users login. APM, I
> used oo.O and save as to save a file to
> /home/oldusername/Desktop.  No outputed errors but the
> file didn't show up on the GUI Desktop on in the
> /home/oldusername/Desktop folder as read from konsole
> using ls -al or ls -alh. FWIW, I've even downloaded
> programs from the internet to my desktop and they
> don't show up.  Really got me baffleloed. -:)

It's not showing on your desktop or by going into the terminal and 
cd'ing into ~/Desktop and ls -al? That is baffling.

While in the terminal and your pwd (prints the working directory you're 
in), what happens if you type "touch testfile.txt" then do a listing 
with "ls"?