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weaver4

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Registered: 2015-08-18

Posts: 2

Directories in my Home Directory show up on my desktop.

I am running XFCE 4.8 on a Rasberry Pi 2 B.  Love it, but:

If I create a directory in my home directory that folder will automatically show up on my desktop.  If I delete the folder on the desktop it deletes the directory in my home directory.

How do I stop that?  I did not see this behavior on other systems, but I see it on my Raspberry Pi.

Last edited by weaver4 (2015-08-18 14:33:02)

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: Directories in my Home Directory show up on my desktop.

xdg-user-dirs (also Xdg user directories)

Look at ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and change "XDG_DESKTOP_DIR" to point to your Desktop directory or alternately:

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

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weaver4

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Registered: 2015-08-18

Posts: 2

Re: Directories in my Home Directory show up on my desktop.

Thanks,

my ~/Desktop was a link (ln) to /usr/share/indiecity/pistore/pistore.desktop.  Don't know why it was that way but it is on a Raspberry Pi.

So I renamed Desktop to Desktop.original and then made a new directory called ~/Desktop.

Then I did what ToZ suggested and everthing worked OK.