How can I get my desktop to work after renaming it and Ubuntu recreating it?
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I changed my desktop name, and then Ubuntu automatically recreated a system desktop again. Now my desktop isn't working. I can't move stuff out of it. I can move stuff into it and open it in the file browser, but the desktop icons aren't showing up. I'm using version 16.04
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I changed my desktop name, and then Ubuntu automatically recreated a system desktop again. Now my desktop isn't working. I can't move stuff out of it. I can move stuff into it and open it in the file browser, but the desktop icons aren't showing up. I'm using version 16.04
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system'shostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.
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I changed my desktop name, and then Ubuntu automatically recreated a system desktop again. Now my desktop isn't working. I can't move stuff out of it. I can move stuff into it and open it in the file browser, but the desktop icons aren't showing up. I'm using version 16.04
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I changed my desktop name, and then Ubuntu automatically recreated a system desktop again. Now my desktop isn't working. I can't move stuff out of it. I can move stuff into it and open it in the file browser, but the desktop icons aren't showing up. I'm using version 16.04
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system'shostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.
– guiverc
yesterday
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system'shostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system's
hostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.– guiverc
yesterday
Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system's
hostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.– guiverc
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If you changed the name of your ~/Desktop directory then your system doesn't 'see' that directory anymore.
In order to change the default names of the directories in your $HOME you need to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
This is mine with default values :
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"
So if I want to change the 'Escritorio' dir to ANYELSE I would do :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/ANYELSE"
Log out, log in and that's it :-)
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If you changed the name of your ~/Desktop directory then your system doesn't 'see' that directory anymore.
In order to change the default names of the directories in your $HOME you need to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
This is mine with default values :
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"
So if I want to change the 'Escritorio' dir to ANYELSE I would do :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/ANYELSE"
Log out, log in and that's it :-)
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abaddon s
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If you changed the name of your ~/Desktop directory then your system doesn't 'see' that directory anymore.
In order to change the default names of the directories in your $HOME you need to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
This is mine with default values :
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"
So if I want to change the 'Escritorio' dir to ANYELSE I would do :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/ANYELSE"
Log out, log in and that's it :-)
answered yesterday
abaddon s
113
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If you changed the name of your ~/Desktop directory then your system doesn't 'see' that directory anymore.
In order to change the default names of the directories in your $HOME you need to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
This is mine with default values :
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"
So if I want to change the 'Escritorio' dir to ANYELSE I would do :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/ANYELSE"
Log out, log in and that's it :-)
answered yesterday
abaddon s
113
If you changed the name of your ~/Desktop directory then your system doesn't 'see' that directory anymore.
In order to change the default names of the directories in your $HOME you need to edit the file $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
This is mine with default values :
$ cat $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"
So if I want to change the 'Escritorio' dir to ANYELSE I would do :
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/ANYELSE"
Log out, log in and that's it :-)
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Welcome to Ask Ubuntu. It's not clear to me what you're asking? Did you change your ~/Desktop folder's name (ie. the Desktop/ folder in your /home/user directory)? or your system's
hostname? or something else (such as a label that appears on the top of your panel?) Please clarify.– guiverc
yesterday