[lde4.1}Desk top missing

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>
Hope am not confusing you at least more than it's
confusing me.-:)  My ~/Desktop file only contains the
original desktop files and the backups I made before
trying the new user home plus a hardy alt iso file I
have just finished downloading to check if showed up
in the default download location and it did this time
anyway but does not show up on the GUI Desktop. I have
actually downloaded files from internet that never
showed in either place and now have shown on the GUI
Desktop. Haven't had time to get back to new user home
and check all this out there but will asap.
 
> 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"?
Works as expected:
lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~/Desktop$ pwd
/home/lchata/Desktop
lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~/Desktop$ touch
testfile.txt
lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~/Desktop$ ls
gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso                
install_flash_player.exe.bak                       
seamonkey-1.1.11.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz.bak
gparted-live-0.3.7-7.iso.bak            
jre-6u7-linux-x64(2).bin                           
seamonkey.bak
install_flash_player(2).exe             
jre-6u7-linux-x64.bin                              
symduplicates
install_flash_player_9_linux            
jre-6u7-linux-x64.bin.bak                          
symduplicates.bak
install_flash_player_9_linux.bak         Linux history
                                      testfile.txt
install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz      Linux
history.bak                                  
ubuntu-8.04.1-alternate-amd64.iso
install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz.bak  seamonkey    
                                     
ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso
install_flash_player.exe                
seamonkey-1.1.11.en-US.linux-i686.installer.tar.gz 
ubuntu-8.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso.bak
lchata at ubuntu-hardy-64bit:~/Desktop$

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net