I just got it. Thank you Bob W for your advice. I just about went nuts trying to track this one down - been at it for about 2 hours. Well... I learned a lot in the process I suppose.
I believe I triggered it by mistakenly deleting "Desktop". Nothing happened but my very few desktop icons disappeared and at that time I didn't associate the two events (in fact I don't remember deleting Desktop - I just remember my desktop icons disappearing). Later, (presumably after a reboot or logout?) the icons all appeared on my desktop and I started looking into it. Then - I discovered a folder called "file:" in my home directory. It contained a folder called "coulthard" (or maybe it was "home"? - sorry my memory is a bit weak on this one) it contained an empty folder called "Desktop". I deleted them, and recreated Desktop in my home folder. Then flailing around with the gconf-editor to no avail was very frustrating. Looks normal now - thank goodness. -- Gnome Thinks Home Directory Is Desktop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151576 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
