I can confirm this behaviour. When I run the nautilus file browser, my desktop gets covered with icons representing every single directory under my home dir (which is an NFS mount). If I do not run the file browser, only the icons under $HOME/Desktop appear.
Once the icons have appeared, the only way to get rid of them is to reboot. Simply logging out, and then logging back in does not work. Please see the attached screen shot. I believe this is a bug rather than a feature as the icons suggest that I have separately mounted each subdirectory via nautilus, whereas actually I just have a single mount point, namely my home directory. My current workaround is just to not use the nautilus file browser. ** Attachment added: "Nautilus-creates-spurious-desktop-icons.png" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/14251444/Nautilus-creates-spurious-desktop-icons.png -- Nautilus clutters up my desktop with icons when I browse to an SMB share https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199270 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
