Author Topic: LXDE: Desktop folders mess  (Read 1186 times)

qbrick

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LXDE: Desktop folders mess
« on: June 03, 2010, 03:55:07 PM »
Hi, I've PCLOS 2010 LXDE running now. When I started using it, there was this house shaped 'My Documents' folder on the desktop. Ok, I looked through the threads and so I learned, that this icon cannot be deleted. After some reboots I noticed, that my whole $HOME directory was displayed on the desktop. Now, I want to keep PCMANFM taking care of the desktop background, I would even tolerate a single HOME folder icon, but displaying my home directory makes the desktop look totally cluttered. How can I change this?
This is all - for now.  ;D

skyhawk

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Re: LXDE: Desktop folders mess
« Reply #1 on: June 03, 2010, 04:46:11 PM »
Look at the contents of your ~/Desktop folder, delete anything you do not want. Mine is as follows:

[rg@localhost ~]$ cd /home/rg/Desktop
[rg@localhost Desktop]$ ls -l
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 rg rg 4096 Nov 28  2009 Utilities/
[rg@localhost Desktop]$

qbrick

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Re: LXDE: Desktop folders mess
« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2010, 12:15:10 AM »
Thanks for replying.

~/Desktop did not contain anything. But I've found what was wrong. Sometimes a night of sleep lies in between the problem and the solution. ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs had to look like this:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Vorlagen"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Dokumente"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Musik"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Bilder"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"


I looked at the file in /root as root and noticed the first line showing
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

I start to learn about *.desktop files, too, which I for some reason never cared for in the twelve years I do with Linux.