deleting Desktop directory fails

[Colin Law]

On 7 June 2012 06:34, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2012 05:02 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 6 June 2012 20:36, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm still trying to figure out why I cannot delete my Desktop directory
>>> in
>>> the new and improved Linux world. I thought I was Master of the Universe
>>> and
>>> could do as I damned well pleased. Thankfully, someone else is in charge
>>> and
>>> I am not allowed to do this myself, since I am totally without wits and
>>> tend
>>> to drool a lot. Since I am bungie-corded into my high chair, I sure would
>>> like to know how to just erase a stinkin' directory that is completely
>>> empty. I even used MC to delete it, and there was no error popup. No
>>> error
>>> popping up from command line or with nautilus. It just refuses to DO AS I
>>> SAY!
>>>
>>> I usually have ~/Desktop linked to my /opt partition so I can futz with
>>> the
>>> OS and leave the good stuff alone. This is the first time I haven't been
>>> able to do this.<swears like a sailor>  Ric
>>
>>
>> I have just tried it and nautilus will not let me but rmdir from the
>> command line worked ok.
>
> Wait two seconds and then do another ls. It'll be back. :) Ric

Not for me it didn't, but anyway, try changing the desktop dir spec
.config/user-dirs.dirs to somewhere else and see if that fixes it.  In
fact if what you are actually trying to do is specify a different
directory to be the "desktop" then this is one way to do it, rather
than using a link.  You will have to log out I think after changing
it.

Colin