[lde4.1}Desk top missing

[Leonard Chatagnier]

 Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net



----- Original Message ----
> From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 7:44:29 AM
> Subject: Re: [lde4.1}Desk top missing
> 
> Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > --- Bart Silverstrim 
> > 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"?
Just following up here. When in the new user home, doing the touch testfile.txt
the results is exactly same as in old home. The file is created inthe file system 
at /home/newusername/Desktop but doesn't show up in the GUI Dssktop.