> Hi List,
>
> I don't know how, but my mother managed to get her Desktop populated withe
> the content of her home dir.
> (Means there are icons of EVERYTHING that's in the home dir are on the
> desktop). How do I get rid of that? I tried everything I could imagine
> inside the ~/Desktop dir, which hasn't any effect at all.
> So what to do now??

Sounds like the XDG entry for the desktop got changed to $HOME.  Go to
TDEControl-->System Administration-->Paths and verify the Desktop path
entry.

Tim