[Solved] Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
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- WiltshireJon
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[Solved] Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
My fault, fat finger and sensitive touchpad problem, I managed to drag & drop my desktop folder from Home into my Templates folder. I copied it back to Home, but couldn't delete the copy under Templates (even with elevated priviledges). So now I have two desktop folders. The system still works fine so it's no big problem but it's sort of "untidy". I guess I could Timeshift back to the original setup as I did a timeshift backup shorlty before, but is there a way I could do this without using timeshift?
Thanks
Thanks
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Before you even try this: It will not work. TS (with default settings, which have a good reason) does not touch user's home, so nothing will revert here.
Open a terminal and enter:
Provide the output.ls -la ~/template
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Thanks for your reply.
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ ls -la ~/template
ls: cannot access '/home/jon/template': No such file or directory
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
You got this error message, because I made a - wrong - assumption about the name of the folder. (I use a German locale, so I re-translated).
Try this:
Note, that in case you use also a non English system you have to exchange the name of the folder accordingly.
Try this:
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ls -la ~/Templates
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Aha:
Thanks again
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ ls -la ~/Templates
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 3 jon jon 12288 Feb 12 17:39 .
drwxr-xr-x 30 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 08:30 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 09:41 Desktop
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 8964 Dec 21 15:19 Normal.ott
-rw-r--r-- 1 jon jon 16214 Feb 10 2017 meme.otp
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
My suspicion was, that there is a permission problem with the Desktop folder inside of Templates, but this is not the case.
Do this in the terminal:
You should see for all objects there in the output in column 3 & 4 the same "jon jon" as above.
If this is the case try to delete all objects inside of this folder, afterwards the empty folder itself.
Do this in the terminal:
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cd ~/Templates/Desktop
ls -la
If this is the case try to delete all objects inside of this folder, afterwards the empty folder itself.
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ cd ~/Templates/Desktop
jon@jon-zenbook ~/Templates/Desktop $ ls -la
total 52
drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 09:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 jon jon 12288 Feb 12 17:39 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 2917 Feb 12 17:41 Calc.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 810 Feb 12 17:41 Chromium.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 3678 Feb 12 17:41 Darktable.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 412 Feb 12 17:42 filezilla.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 793 Feb 12 17:41 Firefox.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 7140 Apr 18 2016 gnucash.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 634 Feb 12 17:41 Thunderbird.desktop
-rwxr-xr-x 1 jon jon 3037 Feb 12 17:41 Writer.desktop
jon@jon-zenbook ~/Templates/Desktop $ ^C
Thanks
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
What is the content of
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Sorry for the delay, I had to be elsewhere.
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
bash: /home/jon/.config/user-dirs.dirs: Permission denied
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
You have a permission issue in your account - and possibly not only on this place. So we will investigate into this at first:
Mark the following command and press ctrl-c
open a terminal and press ctrl-shift-V
Mark the complete result inclusive the command with the mouse and press ctrl-shift-C
In the forum click the Code-button above the text box, than press ctrl-v.
Report in case, that there is no output.
Mark the following command and press ctrl-c
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find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f
Mark the complete result inclusive the command with the mouse and press ctrl-shift-C
In the forum click the Code-button above the text box, than press ctrl-v.
Report in case, that there is no output.
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ find $HOME ! -user $USER -type f
find: ‘/home/jon/.cache/dconf’: Permission denied
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Anything is wrong here. The previous output says clearly, that there is (at least) a permission problem for ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (~ is a shortcut for your home), so it should get reported with the last output.
We try another thing. Enter in the terminal
Use the same method as described above to provide the output.
We try another thing. Enter in the terminal
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ls -ls ~/.config
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ ls -ls ~/.config
total 144
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 2 16:51 autostart
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 10:36 caja
4 drwx------ 15 jon jon 4096 Feb 14 10:49 chromium
4 drwxr-xr-x 3 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 10:39 cinnamon-session
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 09:02 darktable
4 drwxrwxr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 14 10:36 dconf
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Jan 24 17:34 filezilla
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 08:45 geeqie
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Jan 3 14:48 goa-1.0
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 10:13 gtk-2.0
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 14 10:35 gtk-3.0
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 10:36 hexchat
4 drwxrwxr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 28 16:08 KeePass
4 drwxrwxr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 28 16:10 keepassx
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 11:34 libreoffice
4 drwxrwxr-x 4 jon jon 4096 Dec 28 17:31 lsc
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 10:39 menus
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 1282 Jan 8 09:51 mimeapps.list
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 559 Jan 1 16:11 monitors.xml
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 14 10:35 nemo
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 19 13:13 pix
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 10:39 pulse
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 117 Feb 13 10:13 QtProject.conf
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 15 16:52 Thunar
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 jon jon 10097 Dec 28 16:13 Trolltech.conf
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 593 Dec 10 11:55 ufrawrc
4 -rw------- 1 jon jon 642 Feb 12 17:29 user-dirs.dirs
4 -rw-rw-r-- 1 jon jon 5 Nov 29 10:39 user-dirs.locale
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 10:16 vlc
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 17:21 xed
4 drwxrwxr-x 3 jon jon 4096 Nov 29 14:31 xfce4
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Feb 13 10:13 xplayer
4 drwx------ 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 4 19:58 xviewer
4 drwxrwxr-x 2 jon jon 4096 Dec 3 16:37 yelp
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
I guess I had better add that this was (is) a fresh install of mint 18.3 after the upgrade from a previous version failed. Dual boot with WIN10, though I seldom use that these days. Everything appears to works just fine....apart from this
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jon@jon-zenbook ~ $ inxi -Fxz
System: Host: jon-zenbook Kernel: 4.13.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: System: ASUSTeK (portable) product: UX360UA v: 1.0
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX360UA v: 1.0
Bios: American Megatrends v: UX360UA.300 date: 06/17/2016
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i5-6200U (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 9600
clock speeds: max: 2800 MHz 1: 2400 MHz 2: 2400 MHz 3: 2400 MHz
4: 2400 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Sky Lake Integrated Graphics bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
Resolution: 3200x1800@59.70hz
GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 520 (Skylake GT2)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.7 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-32-generic
Network: Card: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 512.1GB (24.8% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: HFS512G39MND size: 512.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 213G used: 39G (20%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.48GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda6
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 42.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: 3700
Info: Processes: 211 Uptime: 49 min Memory: 1093.1/7873.6MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35
jon@jon-zenbook ~ $
Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
OK, I see now, where the problem with the file user-dirs.dirs is: I did read the post too quickly. So I overlooked, that you simply tried to execute it - what necessarily needs to fail.
Open this file in your text editor; you can simply double click it in the file manager. Now you will get the content of it and you can paste it here.
Open this file in your text editor; you can simply double click it in the file manager. Now you will get the content of it and you can paste it here.
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
My apologies for reading your post too quickly! Content below:
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# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
#
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Templates/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
You can see that the file shows the Desktop as
Change that to
Then log out and back in. Test to be sure - but you then can safely delete $HOME/Templates/Desktop
You might have check $HOME/Desktop to make sure the launchers and files that you want there are there before deleting $HOME/Templates/Desktop
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Templates/Desktop"
Change that to
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
Then log out and back in. Test to be sure - but you then can safely delete $HOME/Templates/Desktop
You might have check $HOME/Desktop to make sure the launchers and files that you want there are there before deleting $HOME/Templates/Desktop
Mint 18.2 Cinnamon, Quad core AMD A8-3870 with Radeon HD Graphics 6550D, 8GB DDR3, Ralink RT2561/RT61 802.11g PCI
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Re: Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Thanks Cosmo and austin.texas that's fixed it.
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Re: [Solved] Duplicate desktop folder (Cinnamon)
Well, this happens. As you see above I did the same mistake, otherwise I would had seen at once, that you tried to execute this file instead of displaying its content and we would have both saved some time. I was rather sure, that the culprit was in this file, but I wanted a confirmation for that. But such is live: Some mistakes get done by the software, others by humans.