Why is my desktop the same as home folder?
You can change you desktop folder i.e the folder you want to use as your Desktop.
Open the
~/.config
folder. (Press Ctrl+h to show hidden folders.)Open the
user-dirs.dirs
file in gedit.
Change
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR
to the folder you want to show as your Desktop folder. In your case it isXDG_DESKTOP_DIR=$HOME/Desktop
- Now restart nautilus using
nautilus -q
orkillall nautilus
and again opening it from Dash.
As simply or shortly, You can set default folders with help of xdg-user-dirs-update
command.
Run following command in your case:
xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP "$HOME/Desktop"
Then logout and login back to show/change effect.
From man xdg-user-dirs-update
:
NAME xdg-user-dirs-update - Update XDG user dir configuration SYNOPSIS xdg-user-dirs-update [OPTION...] [--set NAME PATH...] DESCRIPTION xdg-user-dirs-update updates the current state of the users user-dirs.dir. If none existed before then one is created based on the system default values, or falling back to the old non-translated filenames if such directories exists. The list of old directories used are: ~/Desktop, ~/Templates and ~/Public.