On 05/05/2008 12:37:37 PM, A. Walton wrote: > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Geoffrey Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > This is Fedora 8, nautilus version 2.20.0 release 9.fc8 > > > > When I booted F8/Gnome today, my desktop was littered with icons > for > > the folders and files from my home directory. My installation is > pretty > > much vanilla with regard to the desktop; previously all that was > > displayed was device icons. I am not aware of having changed any > > preferences. > > > > Could someone kindly enlighten me as to how I might disable the > display > > of home directory folders? > > Odd occurrence that happens on upgrades it seems; you should check > that the GConf setting for "Home directory as desktop" isn't set > (gconf key: /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir), but the > probably culprit is XDG_USER_DIRS being changed. You should be able > to > fix it in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with a line like: > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop". > > If you're still having issues, please file a bug and we'll see what > we > can do.
Thanks for the reply. The GConf setting for "Home directory as desktop" is not set. Adding XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" to ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs does not improve the situation. Removing the file does. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list