On 15 Aug 2008, at 00:31, John Beck wrote: > I have a Gnome problem that I have not been able to solve. I don't > want > to see any icons on my desktop (unless ~/Desktop has something in > it, in > which case I should see icons for those things, but I usually keep > it empty). > I know how to disable the default Computer/Documents/Network icons, > but for > some reason, nautilus insists on showing me an icon for every (non- > dot) file > in my home directory. It does not matter if I use gconf-editor to > toggle > apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir or not as the behavior > does > not change. Same is true of running gnome-cleanup: the behavior > persists.
Somebody else reported this recently-- something seems to be setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME instead of $HOME/Desktop. The fix is to edit your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file. (FWIW, Nautilus also allows you to set your desktop to be a view of your homedir if you so wish, via a gconf key. These two methods now interact in undefined ways-- but hopefully the nautilus setting will now go away; it was undocumented anyway.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com GNOME Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
