ritz wrote: > 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 ? > > Hello Ritz, There are a couple of errors there but nothing to do with this problem I'm afraid. Thanks -- 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
