Home and Desktop got merged in my system. Means whatever I save in home gets automatically save on Desktop and if I delete anything from the desktop it gets deleted from home as well.
How can I get rid from this?
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I found the solution from here: http://johnpoelstra.com/gnome-desktop-full-of-files-directories/
1.Open Nautilus
Press Ctrl+H to show hidden files.
Got to the .config directory.
Open the file ''user-dirs.dirs''
Find the line and make sure it reads as follows: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" .
Save changes and exit editor.
I have not been able to test it myself but hoping to solve your problem.
Muzaffar
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Open terminal, go to home folder and do ls -al. This will show you if Desktop has somehow become symlink to home. If so, just delete Desktop folder in file manager and recreate it.
Barafu Albino
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When I ran the above command I got "drwxrwxr-x 8 charu charu 4096 Sep 24 22:40 . drwxr-xr-x 47 charu charu 4096 Jan 29 19:42 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 charu charu 4096 Sep 23 13:36 cache drwxrwxr-x 2 charu charu 4096 Sep 24 22:06 database drwxrwxr-x 3 charu charu 4096 Sep 24 11:42 incoming drwxrwxr-x 2 charu charu 4096 Sep 23 13:34 logs drwxrwxr-x 3 charu charu 4096 Sep 23 13:34 templates drwxrwxr-x 20 charu charu 4096 Sep 24 22:00 tmp" I am unable to find symlink for Desktop. What should be done to solve this? – user3859872 Jan 29 '15 at 14:18
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Did you run it in your home folder? Surely? Did you delete all the standard foilders like Video, Music, so on? Anyway, try to do
mkdir /home/(yourusername)/Desktop– Barafu Albino Jan 29 '15 at 14:22 -
gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences desktop-is-home-dirrun in a terminal? – steeldriver Jan 29 '15 at 14:23xdg-user-dir DESKTOP? – g_p Jan 29 '15 at 14:30