Ubuntu 18.04 GUI File Manager Weirdness

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 3 Jul 2019 21:57:18 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Wed,  3 Jul 2019 14:34:12 -0400 (EDT), Robert Heller wrote:
> >What is shown on the desktop is what I get when I use a terminal and
> >do a 'ls Desktop' (except with the icons).
> 
> On the desktop there are not the folders of a user's home, there are
> either regular links, files with information about the location or
> there's nothing at all, even if it's shown on the GUI desktop.
> 
> What's the output of
> 
>   ls -Al Desktop/

[goodneighbors at newserver ~]$ ls -Al Desktop/
total 12
drwxrwsr-x. 6 goodneighbors goodneighbors 4096 Jul  3 11:42 GoodNeighbors
drwxrwxr-x. 2 goodneighbors goodneighbors 4096 Oct  9  2012 Nancy's Documents
drwxrwxr-x. 2 goodneighbors goodneighbors 4096 Feb 28  2018 Untitled Folder

Note: this is on the NFS server machine (running CentOS 6).  I'm *not* logged 
into the Ubuntu workstation.  Oh, these are exactly the folders shown on the 
Desktop when the user in question is logged into the Ubuntu workstation.

> 
> ?
> 
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