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I was doing some "house kipping" aka deleting some ancient files and folders to free the space on my disk. I worked in Doublecmd and somehow marked the Desktop folder. After deleting finished my desktop was cluttered with all folders and files in my home folder. I restored the Desktop from the trash but the process broke. After reboot, there is a plethora of objects on my screen I don't want to see them there.
How do I set up Gnome-desktop to read the Desktop folder in my ~/home instead of my basic home folder? Thanks to anyone who would find the time to answer.

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  • A good place to start if what version of Ubuntu are yous using?
    – David
    Sep 25, 2022 at 9:28

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Make sure the directory "Desktop" is back in its proper place, i.e. in your home directory. Then open the configuration file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs with a text editor and make sure the line for XDG_DESKTOP reads like XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop". Log out then back in.

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