Had the same experience on hardy. I had my sym-linked to a folder under an nfs-moint, but one time there was a problem mounting, so the Desktop was a broken link (to the a nfs-folder).
When this happened the file ~/.config/users.dir was either created or changed and the important variable here was set XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" Changing this variable solved my problem (home folder displayed on dekstop). So in my case, this may not be a bug, because it is not obvious what the system shall do when the Desktop is a broken link. -- files from ~ shown on desktop (desktop_is_home_dir == false) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/154037 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
