How to remove directory tree from Desktop

[scq]

Mate Ver 21.2
Intel I7 7th Gen

I am not sure how or why directory tree is displayed on my desktop. I have tried to find a way to not have it displayed , but no go. When I dismount my drive it goes away. When I change to Cinnamon it goes away.

[Hoser Rob]

This sounds to me like one of those problems caused by having more than one desktop installed. Ouch.

[scq]

I do not think so. I have had both installed on my computer for years

[mikeflan]

directory tree is displayed on my desktop

I'm wondering what that would look like.
Can you post a pic of it?

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[scq]

[mikeflan]

OK. I would think that is just a bunch of folders on the Desktop, but I guess we are thinking that since Documents, Desktop, Downloads, and Videos is included, that the home directory is being shown on the desktop when the directories are not really there.

Please post of the output of this in a terminal:

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ls -la ~/Desktop; echo; cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

[scq]

stephencq@stephen-OMEN:~$ ls -la ~/Desktop; echo; cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 2 stephencq stephencq 4096 Apr 6 2023 .
drwx------ 74 stephencq sudo 20480 Oct 24 12:09 ..

# 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/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"
stephencq@stephen-OMEN:~$

[Koentje]

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

I think that says it all..


XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"

And these two are also missing subfolders..

[mikeflan]

Edit the lower part of the user-dirs.dirs file to show this:

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XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$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"

Then restart and see if you like the results.

I don't know how yours got messed up, but maybe you do.

[scq]

Thanks, that fixed my problem. I remember doing a regular update that required that I reboot. Then my problem appeared. So I am not sure how I got it. I have had no reason to change that file.

Thanks again.