Stupid Change. How do I restore my desktop config

Asked by tomdean

I did something stupid.

Now, I have my home directory displayed as icons on the desktop. and, not the original 6 desktop icons.

Before, I had 6 icons on the desktop.

ls -la ~/Desktop
total 1
drwxr-xr-x 2 tomdean tomdean 4096 Apr 6 23:01 .
drwxr-xr-x 169 tomdean tomdean 12288 Apr 6 23:01 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomdean tomdean 35 Nov 14 09:24 ATmega128. -> /home/tomdean/AVR/Doc/ATmega128.pdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomdean tomdean 24 Mar 24 14:09 TownSummit -> /home/tomdean/TownSummit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 558 Jul 18 2009 gnome-terminal-1.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 477 Apr 3 22:57 gnome-terminal-2.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 477 Apr 3 23:00 gnome-terminal.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 172 Jun 17 2009 seamonkey.desktop

How do I restore the gnome desktop to its original state?

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tomdean (tomdean) said :
#1

On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 06:14 +0000, tomdean wrote:
> New question #106680 on Ubuntu:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/106680
>
> I did something stupid.
>
> Now, I have my home directory displayed as icons on the desktop. and, not the original 6 desktop icons.
>
> Before, I had 6 icons on the desktop.
>
> ls -la ~/Desktop
> total 1
> drwxr-xr-x 2 tomdean tomdean 4096 Apr 6 23:01 .
> drwxr-xr-x 169 tomdean tomdean 12288 Apr 6 23:01 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomdean tomdean 35 Nov 14 09:24 ATmega128. -> /home/tomdean/AVR/Doc/ATmega128.pdf
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomdean tomdean 24 Mar 24 14:09 TownSummit -> /home/tomdean/TownSummit
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 558 Jul 18 2009 gnome-terminal-1.desktop
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 477 Apr 3 22:57 gnome-terminal-2.desktop
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 477 Apr 3 23:00 gnome-terminal.desktop
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 tomdean tomdean 172 Jun 17 2009 seamonkey.desktop
>
> How do I restore the gnome desktop to its original state?
>
Solved.

I removed the directory ~/.config and it came back.

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Tom (tom6) said :
#2

Brilliant :)
Nicely done :) Hopefully that should help anyone in the near future with a similar problem :)
Congrats, thanks & regards from
Tom :)

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Tom (tom6) said :
#3

Please can you click on the "Solved" button at the bottom of this thread?
Thanks again from
Tom :)

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tomdean (tomdean) said :
#4

removing the .config directory solved the problem