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Skaperen

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[SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop.  i have no idea where to set which directory path will be used to find the desktop icon in .desktop files.   its current  ~/Desktop has only one file so there should be only one icon on the desktop after the system ones.

Last edited by Skaperen (2022-06-09 01:57:04)

KBar

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Re: [SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

realpath ~USERNAME/.

Where USERNAME is that user's login name.

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CwF

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Re: [SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop.

I believe that is an indicator of /home/root/Desktop, which isn't a real place!

Skaperen

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Re: [SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

it's real

lt1a/clock/0 /home/clock 14> realpath ~clock/.
/home/clock
lt1a/clock/0 /home/clock 15> ls -dil /home/clock
32768001 drwxr-xr-x 15 clock clock 4096 Jun  5 20:32 /home/clock
lt1a/clock/0 /home/clock 16> ls -dil /home/clock/Desktop
32776198 drwxr-xr-x 2 clock clock 4096 Jun  4 18:25 /home/clock/Desktop
lt1a/clock/0 /home/clock 17> 

the name of this user is "clock".

Last edited by Skaperen (2022-06-06 04:58:56)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop.  i have no idea where to set which directory path will be used to find the desktop icon in .desktop files.   its current  ~/Desktop has only one file so there should be only one icon on the desktop after the system ones.

Sounds like your xdg-dirs config is off. Run the following command to see where xdg thinks your desktop is (probably your home directory):

xdg-user-dir DESKTOP

If it doesn't point to your desktop, run the following to reset it:

xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP ~/Desktop

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Skaperen

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Re: [SOLVED] one of my users has ~/. working as ~/Desktop

it was pointing at my home directory, at first.  i did the update and re-ran the "xdg-user-dir" command and it now shows the correct directory.  the desktop didn't change so i assume it needs a logout/login cycle (edit: which worked).  i also checked for changing files and see "~/.config/user-dirs.dirs" changed.  it seems to be the relevant file to examine (for why this change happened).  it specifically suggests this file is OK to edit:

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"

Last edited by Skaperen (2022-06-08 23:16:14)