Desktop is Your Home

There is a way to keep your home tidy. Keep it in sight!

There is no reason to keep the artificial Desktop directory in your $HOME. Let your Home dir be your Desktop and you quickly find how usefull it is.

At the terminal window type:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir" --type bool "true"

Your Nautilus should immediately notice the change and reload the desktop contents. If not, just click the desktop and hit F5.

Next, rearrange the folders (by dragging them around and into other folders), make the important ones larger (right click and use resize icon option), set custom icons and put decals on folders to visualize the purpose of the folder (right click and enter properties).

Keeping $HOME right there, always visible constantly motivates to keep it clean, by dragging things lying around to proper place or to the Trashcan.

You may check how it may look like on my screenshot of the Home Desktop.