On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 08:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 21:10 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:40 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > I am running F12 on a desktop machine. Today all of a sudden I noticed > > > > that all the non-hidden files in my home directory have disappeared. > > > > Along with the others, Documents, Desktop, Music, etc. directories > > > > have disappeared. > > > In addition I cannot recreate a Desktop directory which has the magic > property of displaying its contents on the Desktop in Gnome. Instead all > files put in my home directory appear on the desktop. > > > Look, I understand how by making a stupid command choice I could remove > all the files in my home directory but how do you cause all the > non-hidden files in you home directory to appear on you desktop? On top > of that files in the Desktop directory do not appear on the desktop > (only the Desktop directory itself appears). > I wanted to make the gnome-terminal that is opened by nautilus-open-terminal to open in my home directory instead of the Desktop. So I clicked in the Configuration-Editor on: app->nautilus->preferences->Desktop_is_Home_Directory. That seemed to do what I wanted but it also caused the Desktop mess described above. To fix the gnome-terminal you need to go to app->nautilus-open-terminal and click on: Desktop_opens_home_dir It is all so obvious in hindsight, -- ======================================================================= Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines