Home directory on desktop

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:10:12AM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 April 2012 00:04, David Fletcher <dave at thefletchers.net> wrote:
> > I'm running 12.04 on my Toshiba NB520.
> >
> > I can't see how it can be associated, but I was trying out unpacking the
> > tar file from my network backup on the NB520 into a directory called
> > ~/BackupTest/. When I was done, I deleted the contents of BackupTest.
> > Like I say, I can't see how it could be associated but then I saw that
> > ~/Documents/ was gone along with the netbook copy of my Revelation
> > wallet file and the contents of ~/ are now being displayed on the
> > destop.
> >
> > Putting the Documents directory back was easy, but I can't see how to
> > get the desktop to refrain from showing the contents of ~/.
> 
> Did you loose ~/Desktop also?  If so try putting that back.  I don't
> know whether that might cause the problem but I don't want to try it
> and find out.  ~/Desktop is the folder that is supposed to be shown on
> the desktop.
> 
Only if ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs says so.

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Chris Green