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zacariaz

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Registered: 2012-01-18

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[Solved] lxqt/pcmanfm-qt: root folders on desktop

After having installed lxqt and various other software, I suddenly found that all the root system folder (/etc, /proc, /sys, etc.) were present on my desktop.

Doing some research I found that pcmanfm-qt were responsible, but while that is nice to know, I've yet to find a solution to the problem, apart from not using pcmanfm-qt at all.

Should anyone have idea on how to solve this issue, I'd very much like to know.

Best regards.

Last edited by zacariaz (2016-04-05 21:29:30)

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AbaddonOrmuz

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Re: [Solved] lxqt/pcmanfm-qt: root folders on desktop

I don't know how pcmanfm-qt could be the responsible for that, I've using it for a couple of years and I haven't run into that.

Are you sure those are not just symlinks?

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zacariaz

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From: Denmark

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Re: [Solved] lxqt/pcmanfm-qt: root folders on desktop

I don't know how pcmanfm-qt could be the responsible for that, I've using it for a couple of years and I haven't run into that.

Are you sure those are not just symlinks?

Quite sure yes. LXQT is somehow using pcmanfm to manage the desk or something or rather, allegedly using the --desktop option, thus the folders on the desktop disappear if I kill the pcmanfm running in the background, but so does the background image, so it is rather curious.

I should mention that this is only a problem running the qt version of pcmanfm specifically with lxqt, otherwise I've enver experienced anything like this.

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krabat

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Registered: 2014-07-03

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Re: [Solved] lxqt/pcmanfm-qt: root folders on desktop

These findings can be made when package xdg-user-dirs is missing, see https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/896.

So once the package is installed the problem shouldn't get manifest on new user profiles or after deleting ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs of an existing user profile, best while no session is running.
Once it got manifest you can correct it by setting appropriate paths from "LXQt Session Settings" (binary lxqt-config-session) - "Locations" (renamed to "User Directories" in current VCS master) or by editing the said user-dirs.dirs manually.

zacariaz

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2012-01-18

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Re: [Solved] lxqt/pcmanfm-qt: root folders on desktop

These findings can be made when package xdg-user-dirs is missing, see https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/896.

So once the package is installed the problem shouldn't get manifest on new user profiles or after deleting ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs of an existing user profile, best while no session is running.
Once it got manifest you can correct it by setting appropriate paths from "LXQt Session Settings" (binary lxqt-config-session) - "Locations" (renamed to "User Directories" in current VCS master) or by editing the said user-dirs.dirs manually.

I have installed said package and the problem does indeed seem to be gone, so thanks for finding that particular report for me.

As for the rest, I'm not sure further intervention is required, or perhaps I simply do not understand what you're saying, but for I'll simply say thanks once again and mark solved.

Best regards

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