After installing Xubuntu 22.04 on a laptop previously running with Xubuntu 18.04 (not altering its existing partition /home
, I just designated its existing partition as /home
during install), I had to repeat all configurations (panel, appearance of the desktop, configuration of Firefox, Shortcuts, automatically started applications…). I also had to create users and groups as they were before on the old system (I hope did it without creating new home directories for them).
In order to save all this configuration work for the second user, I just copied the hidden folder .config
from the home directory of the first user, for whom I had established all these settings. Of course I adjusted owners and access rights to the user's home directory before proceeding.
This method worked well in other cases, only few fine tuning operations became necessary for the other user (like modifying the desktop backdrops appearance and other user-specific things).
But one thing is really strange and I don’t know how to cope with it:
All the basic folders from that user’s home directory are shown on the desktop as if they were part of that user’s directory ~/Arbeitsfläche
(desktop)!
Those directories are not shown as links but rather as if they are really situated in his personal folder desktop
but they are not there, as Thunar shows. However, if I delete one of those directories to the trash can, it also is deleted from that user's home directory!
In a German localization, the folder desktop is sometimes called Arbeitsfläche
, in some other cases it is called Schreibtisch
. I have already placed question 1466339 what really defines the name of this folder.
I have no idea what causes this strange behavior, nor do I have any idea, how to prevent folders like Bilder
, Dokumente
, Downloads
, Musik
, Öffentlich
, …, snap
, Vorlagen
being shown there, whereas the content of the folder Arbeitsfläche
or Schreibtisch
is not shown, but the folder itself is shown instead!
How can I fix this?