Finally some time to play around on Ubuntu 11.10. Wasn't all fun and games, solved an annoying "issue" I'd been having created a few weeks ago.
For a reason unbeknownst to me, all folders in the home directory were displaying on my desktop. The desktop folder was empty so I could not for the life of me work out what was going on...
I did note that the mysterious appearance of folders on my desktop commenced after changing all the folder names from capital letters to lower case letters.
Google is my friend! Had a quick look at ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Shall we play a game of spot the difference?
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This is what my file looked like... oops!
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This is how it looks now... yay!
So it turns out that, when I renamed my folders using "mv" the user-dirs.dirs wasn't happy and automatically selected my desktop as it's default directory path for everything! Most annoying.
Very simple solution, for a very simple mistake.
"Why are my folders appearing on my desktop - Ubuntu"
Was it because all entries were defined as identical value? Or is this due to moving directories in a way that the file manager isn't capable of tracking?
ReplyDeleteWow, way to ask too many questions I don't have the answers to!
ReplyDeleteI think it was because I renamed specifically the Desktop folder using the mv command and it didn't update the user-dir.dir file with a full path and thus defaulting the home directory to my desktop. I think, I dunno will have to talk to my geeks :-)