hengxing wrote:

I don't know what my mistaken operation which makes all un-hidden
files in my 'home' directory list on the desktop. And if I delete the
file or directory on the desktop, it will remove the file in my 'home
' directory accordingly. It seem a hard link on the desktop which map
to my 'home' directory. How can I remove it from the desktop?
 

from /home/yourname/$

You will need to issue the command ls -la

Oh, and maybe do a ls -la Desktop as well,

from this listing you can see which one is the link, probably only a
soft link.
Then you can rm softlink, or whatever its name is.


cheers
Robert


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On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 17:04 +0800, hengxing wrote:
> I don't know what my mistaken operation which makes all un-hidden
> files in my 'home' directory list on the desktop. And if I delete the
> file or directory on the desktop, it will remove the file in my 'home
> ' directory accordingly. It seem a hard link on the desktop which map
> to my 'home' directory. How can I remove it from the desktop?

Sounds like you are showing your home folder as your desktop folder.
There are two ways this can happen. There is a GConf setting that will
let you display your home folder as your desktop, or, you could have
your XDG_DESKTOP_DIR set to $HOME.

To make sure your home dir isn't being used as your desktop dir in
gconf, run this command:

gconftool-2 -s /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir
--type=bool false

make sure that all appears on one line. You will need to restart
nautilus to see the changes, just log out and then in again. If that
doesn't work, you need to edit your XDG user-dirs file:

gedit .config/user-dirs.dirs

your DESKTOP entry should point to something like "$HOME/Desktop"

Daniel