I don't want my home directory to be my Gnome desktop

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Tim" == Tim  <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> writes:

    Tim> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:04 +0000, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
    >> although set to false (the checkbox is not ticked) appears as
    >> ticked in the icon on the left (in the name column).

    Tim> I'm not sure about your problem as you're working on the
    Tim> right area to fix it, but that ticked icon just indicates
    Tim> that it's a boolean *type* of option, not that it's been
    Tim> enabled.  You'll see the same for other boolean options (that
    Tim> tickbox icon).

OK. Thanks for that explanation.

    >> permissions of ~/Desktop

    Tim>   [tim at suspishus ~]$ ls -ld ~/Desktop/ drwxr-xr-x 2 tim tim
    Tim> 4096 2007-10-26 02:32 /home/tim/Desktop/

Mine was group-writeable. I turned that off, but I doubt if it makes
any difference.
Actually, nothing seems to make a difference except after initial
login. I'll see what it looks like next time I log out.

-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire