Hello On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:43 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote:> 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.bloody odd. any messages logged to ~/.xsession-errors ? -- Ritesh Khadgarayॐ मणि पद्मे हूँDesktop LinuX N StuffPh: +919970164885Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.Fedora is the best of what works today. Enterprise Linux is the best ofwhat will work consistently for the next seven years. _______________________________________________gnome-list mailing listgnome-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
