Desktop covered in file icons

[Graeme Nichols]

Hello,

All of a sudden, I have no idea what I have done, my desktop is covered in
icons for every file I have in my home directories.

Can someone tell me how to fix this please? I must have messed up a config
file somewhere.

Ta.

[José Matos]

Post by Graeme Nichols
Hello,
All of a sudden, I have no idea what I have done, my desktop is covered in
icons for every file I have in my home directories.
Can someone tell me how to fix this please? I must have messed up a config
file somewhere.

You have configured the desktop to be your home directory.

Control Center -> System Administration -> Paths
Desktop path: /home/user/Desktop (this is the default)

Post by Graeme Nichols
Ta.
--
Kind Regards,

[Rex Dieter]

Post by José Matos

Post by Graeme Nichols
Hello,
All of a sudden, I have no idea what I have done, my desktop is covered in
icons for every file I have in my home directories.
Can someone tell me how to fix this please? I must have messed up a config
file somewhere.

You have configured the desktop to be your home directory.
Control Center -> System Administration -> Paths
Desktop path: /home/user/Desktop (this is the default)

Actually, the "default" is now controlled by xdg-user-dirs, see output of:
xdg-user-dir DESKTOP
controlled by
~/.config/user-dirs.conf
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
see also:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxdg_2duser_2ddirs

-- Rex

[Rex Dieter]

Post by José Matos
You have configured the desktop to be your home directory.
Control Center -> System Administration -> Paths
Desktop path: /home/user/Desktop (this is the default)

This default behavior can be overridden, of course, as José pointed out.

-- Rex

[Graeme Nichols]

Hello Rex,

My ~/.config/user-dirs.conf diesn't exist but ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs does.
See following output;

[***@barney ~]$ cd .config
[***@barney .config]$ ls -la
total 44
drwxr-xr-x 4 graeme graeme 4096 2007-09-04 12:50 .
drwx------ 161 graeme graeme 24576 2007-09-05 12:41 ..
drwx------ 2 graeme graeme 4096 2007-09-03 15:21 gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x 3 graeme graeme 4096 2007-08-20 13:19 menus
-rw------- 1 graeme graeme 624 2007-09-04 12:50 user-dirs.dirs
-rw-rw-r-- 1 graeme graeme 5 2007-08-29 10:36 user-dirs.locale
[***@barney .config]$ cat user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Download"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
[***@barney .config]$

I didn't change XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" line but followed Jose's
instructions for the moment..

Thanks for the latest information here. I have filed it for future
reference. When I fully understand what I am doing I will make the change
here.

Regards,

Graeme.

Post by Graeme Nichols
Hello,
All of a sudden, I have no idea what I have done, my desktop is covered in
icons for every file I have in my home directories.
Can someone tell me how to fix this please? I must have messed up a config
file somewhere.
You have configured the desktop to be your home directory.
Control Center -> System Administration -> Paths
Desktop path: /home/user/Desktop (this is the default)
xdg-user-dir DESKTOP
controlled by
~/.config/user-dirs.conf
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fxdg_2duser_2ddirs
-- Rex
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[Graeme Nichols]

Hello Jose,

Thanks very much for that information. It fixed the problem, and I have
learned something.

Regards,

Graeme.

Post by Graeme Nichols

Post by Graeme Nichols
Hello,
All of a sudden, I have no idea what I have done, my desktop is covered

in

Post by Graeme Nichols
icons for every file I have in my home directories.
Can someone tell me how to fix this please? I must have messed up a

config

Post by Graeme Nichols
file somewhere.

You have configured the desktop to be your home directory.
Control Center -> System Administration -> Paths
Desktop path: /home/user/Desktop (this is the default)

Post by Graeme Nichols
Ta.
--
Kind Regards,

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José Abílio
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