petermoffat
April 24th, 2009, 09:26 AM
I'm almost sure I've done this before, but after installing Jaunty last night, I an't seem to make it stick..
I'm trying to change the location of the desktop folder from $HOME/Desktop to a folder on another drive
Ive created a symbolic link to the folder I want to use, and edited .config/user-dirs.dirs (I think) to use this location, however, when I reboot, the desktop contains the contents of my $home folder, as the edit is no longer there, i.e. what I changed to $HOME/Desktop, is now $HOME/ . I deleted the Desktop directory when I started which is when the user-dirs.dirs started acting up I think?
Also, the new folder is on another drive (I like to use my desktop as a temp storage place for things I currently use, and use the same one between various OS's windows XP and 7 as well as ubuntu, so that I can get on with things more efficiently no matter what os I'm using.)
The disk is an NTFS partition is specified in fstab, though I suspect this is not correct, as my symlink does funny things on reboot until i've actually opened the drive in nautilus, so i suspect that it may not be mounting automatically on reboot?
Please help!
Also, well done on getting just about everything to work on my Samsung nc10, apart from iffy brightness and the mouse movement feeling a bit wrong, It's so good to have ubuntu on my primary pc again!
I'm trying to change the location of the desktop folder from $HOME/Desktop to a folder on another drive
Ive created a symbolic link to the folder I want to use, and edited .config/user-dirs.dirs (I think) to use this location, however, when I reboot, the desktop contains the contents of my $home folder, as the edit is no longer there, i.e. what I changed to $HOME/Desktop, is now $HOME/ . I deleted the Desktop directory when I started which is when the user-dirs.dirs started acting up I think?
Also, the new folder is on another drive (I like to use my desktop as a temp storage place for things I currently use, and use the same one between various OS's windows XP and 7 as well as ubuntu, so that I can get on with things more efficiently no matter what os I'm using.)
The disk is an NTFS partition is specified in fstab, though I suspect this is not correct, as my symlink does funny things on reboot until i've actually opened the drive in nautilus, so i suspect that it may not be mounting automatically on reboot?
Please help!
Also, well done on getting just about everything to work on my Samsung nc10, apart from iffy brightness and the mouse movement feeling a bit wrong, It's so good to have ubuntu on my primary pc again!