On Feb 19, 2008 10:20 AM, Khoa Ton <khoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Y Uanlux wrote: > > On Feb 18, 2008 10:01 AM, Khoa Ton <khoa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Khoa Ton wrote: > >>> Y Uanlux wrote: > >>>> Hi > >>>> I am using gnome on Fedora 7 (updated to latest versions). One day I > >>>> incidentally deleted many file at my home dir /home/usr1 by a command > >>>> rm -rf * > >>>> > >>>> Of course most files, except some symbolic linked ones and hidden ones > >>>> (eg .jpilot etc), were remove. After rebooted, I put back some > >>>> settings. However, there is a desktop problem. Every thing created at > >>>> the home dir /home/usr1/ is put on desktop, making the desktop very > >>>> crowed. How to fix it? > >>>> Y > >>> What I did when my desktop got messed up and wanted to get back to > >>> the default was to create a new user and logged on at that user. > >>> > >>> At logon, the desktop manager creates all the desktop configuration > >>> files. Then, I renamed the new user's home directory to my old > >>> user's home and move my personal files over. > >>> > > Thanks for your alternative. I assume you move personal files (for > > example, .gnome etc) from the new home dir to the new one?? > > > > > >>> I'm sure there are more elegant ways to do this, but this is the > >>> surest way to get back to the default desktop environment. > > > > I hope some one can offer an additional solution too. > > > >>> Good luck, > >>> Khoa > >> Oops, forgot to mention you'll have to chown the home directory > >> to your old user as well. > >> > >> > >> Khoa > > Since .gnome and similar directories most likely store desktop information, > I would not move my old one to replace the new one, since doing so might > get me back to the desktop problems I tried to get rid of. > > Aaron Konstam's suggestion of using taring up old home directory and using > tar -k to copy to new clean home directory and keeping any existing files > (like .gnome dir created by desktop manager for new user) seems like > the way to go. > > > Khoa Thanks a lot, I also found a shorcut. Since Fedora 7, there is a file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs control some environment. I changed a line in this file from XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" => XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" things are back to normal look > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
