Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 15:43 +1100, Graeme Nichols wrote: >> 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. > > Hi, > > Just a guess, but is it possible that this is because Fedora uses > xdg-user-dirs and you have changed the path to the desktop? > > Check ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and see what XDG_DESKTOP_DIR is set as. Hello Sven, Thank you very much. That was the answer. XDG_DESKTOP_DIR was set to my home directory. Changing it to $HOME/Desktop fixed the problem. I am much indebted to you and I have filed that information away for any possible future use. Thank you again, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kind regards, Graeme. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Download my GnuPG public key from:- http://www.users.tpg.com.au/gnichols/graemenichols.pub ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The price of success in philosophy is triviality. -- C. Glymour. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
