Daniel James wrote: Hello Daniel, > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 12:39 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Suddenly my desktop became covered in icons for everything in my home >> folder. >> >> My problem is how to set it back to what is in my Desktop folder. > > Open a terminal and type this: > > gconftool-2 --set > --type=bool /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir false > > make sure that is all written on one line.. > > Regards, > > Daniel 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. -- Kind regards, Graeme Nichols. ... Registered Linux User 381781 (http://counter.li.org/) _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
