I have additional information on what causes this problem, reopening.
I was trying to get my home folder to be my Desktop so I moved
everything in ~/Desktop to my home folder and deleted ~/Desktop. After a
Ctrl+Alt+Backspace I saw that my desktop was the contents of my home
folder. It seems that xdg-user-dirs-update runs automatically at some
point to check if the env vars in "~/.config/user-dirs.dirs" actually
point to existing folders.
The problem is that xdg-user-dirs-update checks if each folder defined
in user-dirs.dirs exists, but it doesn't check if a default-named folder
has been CREATED.
When I rmdir my Desktop and run xdg-user-dirs-update I get this:
/home/brian/Desktop was removed, reassigning DESKTOP to homedir
When I mkdir Desktop and run xdg-user-dirs-update I get nothing and
user-dirs.dirs is unaffected.
** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => New
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files from ~ shown on desktop (desktop_is_home_dir == false)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154037
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