[ubuntu-za] Nautilus mess

[Alf Stockton]

David Robert Lewis (ethnopunk) wrote:
> 
> 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 .
> 
Thank you.


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