[lde4.1}Desk top missing

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- 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".
> 
> I'm thinking you're testing by putting this into
> your new user's 
> desktop? It would need to go in to
> /home/newusername/Desktop and should 
> show up on the new user's desktop at that point.
> 
> NoOp is also popping in now. He gives great advice
> to follow :-)
> 
Thanks Bart, that's exactly what I did with oo.O
opened a doc file and saved it to the old user
Desktop(/home/lchata/Desktop) and it never showed up
in the GUI or file system. Also have this problem
downloading files to the Desktop. As a current check,
I just downloated "ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso"
from http://releases.ubuntu.com/releases/8.04/ and it
does show up in the file system but not on the desktop
GUI. I'll try the same thing in the new users window
and see what happens.  Thanks for your help.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net