On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 20:14 +0000, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby <pramc...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my > > Documents folder. > > > > I tried rebooting, and still get the same. > > > > Everything seems to be working OK, except that the Desktop folder with a > > few documents and a couple of shortcuts is gone. > > > > Somehow you've toggled the Nautilus setting "Use Home directory as Desktop" > > Press Alt-F2 to bring up the Run Application dialogue box, type > gconf-editor and click Run. > > Browse to apps/nautilus/preferences and clear the tickbox " > desktop_is_home_dir "
It wasn't selected :( Looks like the whole folder has gone - on my user there's nothing above Documents. All the other users are OK. Can I re-create the Desktop folder just like any normal folder? Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
