Home directory on desktop

[Colin Law]

On 11 April 2012 09:44, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:04:28AM +0100, David Fletcher wrote:
>> I'm running 12.04 on my Toshiba NB520.
>>
>> I can't see how it can be associated, but I was trying out unpacking the
>> tar file from my network backup on the NB520 into a directory called
>> ~/BackupTest/. When I was done, I deleted the contents of BackupTest.
>> Like I say, I can't see how it could be associated but then I saw that
>> ~/Documents/ was gone along with the netbook copy of my Revelation
>> wallet file and the contents of ~/ are now being displayed on the
>> destop.
>>
>> Putting the Documents directory back was easy, but I can't see how to
>> get the desktop to refrain from showing the contents of ~/.
>>
>> Directions, please?
>>
> The configuration of those (really annoying, for me anyway) directories
> that appear as icons on the desktop is in:-
>
>    ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Many thanks for that information Chris.  It hopefully has enabled me
to fix a problem I had where the Dash was not showing the right files
under the Download section.

Colin

>
>
> In addition the file /etc/user-dirs.conf specifies if the above file is
> processed by xdg-user-dirs-update or not.  You can put a copy of
> /etc/user-dirs.conf into ~/.config to change this for individual users.