Home directory files shown on Desktop
Adam Mercer
ramercer at gmail.com
Mon Jun 17 02:20:38 UTC 2019
On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 10:09 AM Keith <KM6WIZ at att.net> wrote:
>
> Open a file manager to check to see if the Desktop folder is in your
> home directory. "If it is check the Desktop directory to see what is in it.
That was sort of the problem; the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs contained:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME"
So the Desktop must have been deleted at some point. Fixing the path
in the above file, running xdg-user-dirs-update, and finally logging
out and logging back in again got this working again.
Cheers
Adam
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