[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: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 9:12:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [lde4.1}Desk top missing
> 
> 
> 
> 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 :-)
I was able using oo.O to open a file from old home into new home ans save it using
save as onto  the new home Desktop but it still does not show on the GUI desktop.
Just some more follow up,FWIW.