[ubuntu-za] Nautilus mess

[David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk)]

Alf Stockton wrote:
> Lee Sharp wrote:
>   
>> Alf Stockton wrote:
>>     
>>> Jonathan Hitchcock wrote:
>>>       
>>>> There's a Nautilus option to use your home directory as the desktop -
>>>> i.e. files in the home directory appear on your desktop.   By default
>>>> this is off, and the "Desktop" directory itself is used.  When you
>>>> deleted the Desktop directory, the option was obviously turned on,
>>>> since there was nothing else to use.  To turn it back off (after you
>>>> have recreated the Desktop directory):
>>>>
>>>> Go to Applications->System Tools->Configuration Editor
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> On my Karmic system kernel 2.6.31-17-generic I don't see Configuration Editor 
>>> under System Tools under Applications?
>>> All I have is pgAdmin III, System Profiler and Benchmark & unetbootin.
>>>       
>>  From the command line type gconf-editor and it will come up.  It is 
>> hidden by default.
>>
>>     
> Thanks Lee, got it but the desktop_is_home_dir key was uncheck?
>
>
>   

Look for the variable XDG_DESKTOP_DIR in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs .