home directory shortcut

Nils Kassube kassube at gmx.net
Fri Sep 12 13:12:44 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:
> The location of Desktop is 
> exactly:
>
> /HOME/Desktop

Not exactly. Unless you have a very unusual Linux system there is no /HOME 
directory. It is at $HOME/Desktop where $HOME is the home directory of 
the user. Usually that is /home/$USER/Desktop where $USER is replaced 
with the login name of the user.


Nils




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