Home acts like Desktop

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:31 -0600, Mike Adolf wrote:
> I had several folders open on the desktop, moving them around so to see 
> contents of each. When I closed most of the folders, I noticed that all 
> my Home contents was now on the Desktop.  In short, now my Home folder 
> is equivalent to my Desktop folder, which is no where to be found.  If I 
> create a new folder on the desktop or in my home folder, it also appears 
> in the other location.  I don't know what I did or what happened. Help!

I don't know how this happened, but you should be able to set it back
with gconf-editor:

      * Press Alt+F2
      * Type gconf-editor and press Enter
      * In the tree on the left navigate to /apps/nautilus/preferences
      * In the pane on the right find the key "desktop_is_home_dir".
        Select it to see a description
      * I expect this to be checked in your case. Uncheck it and you
        should be back to normal