[lde4.1}Desk top missing

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Fri Aug 22 01:58:26 UTC 2008



Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> 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$

Okay...now, you may be repeating yourself with my questions, but I'm 
trying to sort out things and my brain isn't always in third gear.

Here you touched the file and it appeared in ~/Desktop. That's working, 
like you said, as expected.

Now, if you are in the GUI, you should see testfile.txt. Does it appear 
on the desktop view in the GUI?




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