Home acts like Desktop
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Wed Aug 27 22:31:14 UTC 2008
Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Thank you Mario, I was not aware such a tool was available. I have
it now.
Karl
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