Re: Suddenly. folders

[Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>]

On 05/05/2008 12:37:37 PM, A. Walton wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Geoffrey Leach <geoff hughes net>
> wrote:
> > This is Fedora 8, nautilus version 2.20.0 release 9.fc8
> >
> >  When I booted F8/Gnome today, my desktop was littered with icons
> for
> >  the folders and files from my home directory. My installation is
> pretty
> >  much vanilla with regard to the desktop; previously all that was
> >  displayed was device icons. I am not aware of having changed any
> >  preferences.
> >
> >  Could someone kindly enlighten me as to how I might disable the
> display
> >  of home directory folders?
> 
> Odd occurrence that happens on upgrades it seems; you should check
> that the GConf setting for "Home directory as desktop" isn't set
> (gconf key: /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir), but the
> probably culprit is XDG_USER_DIRS being changed. You should be able 
> to
> fix it in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with a line like:
> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop".
> 
> If you're still having issues, please file a bug and we'll see what 
> we
> can do.

Thanks for the reply.

The GConf setting for "Home directory as desktop" is not set.

Adding XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" to ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs 
does not improve the situation. Removing the file does.