Re: Desktop suddenly covered in icons for everything in my home folder

[Graeme Nichols <gnichols tpg com au>]

Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:43 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> > I did as you said but it has made no difference to my desktop even after
> > logging out and back in. Still covered in all the rubbish from my home
> > directory. I need to set the desktop to show the shortcuts that are in
> > my ~/Desktop directory. On F7 there was a utility, under preferences if
> > I remember correctly, that I could run to set this but I cannot find
> > anything on my F8 install.
>
> Hi,
>
> Just a guess, but is it possible that this is because Fedora uses
> xdg-user-dirs and you have changed the path to the desktop?
>
> Check ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and see what XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is set as.

Hello Sven,

Thank you very much. That was the answer. XDG_DESKTOP_DIR was set to my 
home directory. Changing it to $HOME/Desktop fixed the problem.

I am much indebted to you and I have filed that information away for any 
possible future use.

Thank you again,

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