On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Paul Allen Newell <pnewell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > T.C.: > > Sometimes long shots are the best and, in this case, that was it. It was > $HOME and, when I changed to $HOME/Desktop, I was back in business. Many > thanks !!! Excellent! > I am thinking there may be a bug here as I couldn't change it through > gconf-editor, but I'm going to have to run tests to confirm that. Right now, > the poor laptop is screaming at me to get its display repaired, so off it > goes and I'll look into it when I get the machine back. I think the test is > "delete" ~Desktop and log back in ... restoring ~Desktop and then playing in > gconf-editor doesn't get that setting back. Well, gconf-editor probably was switching between your "desktop" and your home directory, but at that juncture, they were one and the same! The real bug is somewhere between GNOME and xdg-user-dirs. Per [1], GNOME should run xdg-user-dirs-update on login, and that should have recreated your Desktop directory. Nothing should have automatically changed XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to your home directory, only the user/administrator is permitted to do so explicitly. > Also, I am on F14 and this machine will be such until I am able to migrate > per 3rd party apps. I doubt if the developers care about a gnome 2.3 problem > now that they are gnome 3.x. And, as you mentioned, the latest version > doesn't have a Desktop so its even more meaningless. Unfortunately, I believe your assessment is correct. AFAIK, GNOME upstream is no longer interested in GNOME 2 bugs. > Once again, I appreciate your taking the time to help me with this, No problem! Glad we were able to sort it out. :-) -T.C. [1] http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
