Hardy thinks my Home folder is my desktop

[larryni]

I was playing around with the Wine desktop integration settings and somehow it renamed ~/Desktop folder to ~/Desktop.winecfg (or something similar) and I didn't notice it right away. The next time I rebooted Gnome switched to my Home folder and now displays all my files on the desktop.

I reset the Wine settings and the Desktop folder has got its original name back, but I still can't get Gnome to use it. I had a look in gconf-editor to see if there was somewhere to change it, but couldn't see anything.

Any ideas?

[Zorael]

I'm not sure Gnome reads this file, but open up ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs in a text editor and make manual modifications. Then log out and back in to see changes apply (or perhaps restart the desktop manager. gdesktop?)

Should look something like this; fairly intuitive.

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="/home/zorael"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/media/main/documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/media/main/downloads"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/media/misc/audio"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/media/main/pictures"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="/media/main/share"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="/media/main/documents/templates"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/media/main/anime"

[TenPlus1]

Pop into www.getdeb.net and download Ubuntu Tweak (unless you already have it)... Their is an option that allows you to make your home folder into your desktop folder, so it's just a matter of turning it off and logging out and back in again...

[larryni]

Thanks to the both of you. My Desktop is back to normal :)

[Yannick Le Saint kyncani]

It's been a long time since I've last used gnome, but I remember a gconf boolean entry named "desktop_is_home_dir".

May it help you.

[daniel014]

It's been a long time since I've last used gnome, but I remember a gconf boolean entry named "desktop_is_home_dir".

May it help you.

Yep, I've found that under apps > nautilus > preferences in Gconf-editor in Jaunty.

That was the way I learnt to show the Home Folder on the Desktop.