Make the desktop show ~/Desktop again

[InfectedWithDrew]

I deleted ~/Desktop to create a symlink to my Windows desktop (the symlink works). But in the process of doing so, my desktop shows /home now instead of, well, ~/Desktop. I've tried rebooting and even deleting the symlink and making a directory called ~/Desktop but no luck, I'm stuck.

Any help? Thank you in advance!

[ajgreeny]

Open gconf-editor and go to apps>nautilus>preferences and make sure that "desktop_is_home_dir" is not selected. If that does not work, then I can't think of anything else.

[InfectedWithDrew]

Open gconf-editor and go to apps>nautilus>preferences and make sure that "desktop_is_home_dir" is not selected. If that does not work, then I can't think of anything else.

It was not selected to begin with.

[CatKiller]

You could try checking that you've got

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"

in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs too. That's me out of ideas as well.