Home and Desktop got merged in my system. Means whatever I save in home gets automatically save on Desktop and if I delete anything from the desktop it gets deleted from home as well.   How can I get rid from this?
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My desktop (not the /home/user/Desktop folder) shows the contents of my /home/user folder. I don't know how I have done it and can I have some help on undoing it? The /home/user/Desktop folder just contains my desktop files which do not appear on my desktop.
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Is there such a thing?  I don't want multiple separate desktops, what I'd like to be able to do is split my main desktop into two areas so that an application in one when maximized won't take up the "Full" physical screen, but its portion of it.  I would like to be able to keep some apps maximized, but still view others off to the side with a single monitor.  Ideas?
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So, Im working in a UNIX environment and I noticed that inside my working directory, which is miles miles away from my UNIX home, there is a ~.  Now, once in the past, I did rm -rf ~ from my working directory and ended up erasing my home directory completely and had to involve IT.  I do not want to do it again. At the same time, I want to know   Why is ~ created in my working directory? Is it a faulty finger slip while saving (:w! but what happens is :w~ ?!!) Before checking in, there is a script that looks for extra files or folders that p4 is not aware so def this ~ might cause an issue. So how can I remove the ~ from my working directory and at the same time not erase my home?   I do have a backup command called del that I use instead of rm -rf. It just places stuff in a temporary location. I could use that and get rid of the ~. But I'm more interested in knowing why this happens, and how I can remove it?
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When I try to delete one of these two shortcuts, a message appears saying, "If you remove this file, Windows or another program may no longer work correctly."! I don't think that it is possible to keep same named files into a single directory. Is this any malware or anything harmful for my PC?
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This  forced removal of unity and ubuntu-desktop on my 16.04 Ubuntu system.   The offending package that is missing, but unity needs, seems to be compiz-core-abiversion-20151010. It seems to be a , and I can't find it to download.    As it happens, I mostly use LXDE on this system, but I'd be very unhappy if I used Unity...  Since I do occasionally use the Unity desktop, is there a fix for this?  Edit: related questions are rolling in. Looks like a major quality escape          Edit 2:
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Correct me if I'm wrong here, but when you "delete" something from your PC all your computer does is write over some of the binary with 0's replacing the 1's.  (Or something to that effect) So when you send something to the recycle bin it writes over part of the file, and when you delete from the recycle bin it writes more?
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I accidentally deleted 'Documents' folder and all its contents in Home folder, is there any step by step way to recover or at least recreate an empty original 'Documents' folder again? I'm using ubuntu 12.04 by the way.
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okay, so tyeing to type "icons" in the /usr/share/ directory, hit the delete key as root, now my icons are gone, all of them, the options for play in totem or the ones on the desktop....all of them, any help?
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I saw so many hidden folders when I pressed Ctrl+H in my home folder ! their names are starting with a dot (.) ! like .themes , .config and etc.. Can I please get to know what can I do with those folders ? Or should I delete those ?
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Is there any software to sync files-folders and software between two PCs? For example if I install program 'A' to my desktop I want to be installed to my laptop as well if I have synchronized these two. I want the same with my files and folders. If I change something to my desktop I want the changes to effect my laptop too(I exclude Ubuntu One as a solution).  Thanks for your time and patience!
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How do I completly remove XP from my pc. I currently have a dual boot with XP and Windows 7. Since installing Windows 7, I have never used XP. Can I remove it without causing problems with Windows 7?
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When I am in my home folder there is a padlock on my Desktop icon. In properties there is written that root is the owner of Desktop and consequently I can't put anything on my Desktop.  I have recently installed this Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to know why does the desktop icon belong to root while it wasn't so in Ubuntu 12.04 that I used earlier.  I know how to change the owner of a file using the command "chown" (or maybe this won't work for Desktop?) but I am afraid that it could somehow impair my security so first I would like to know the reason of this default setting.
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I've been looking on an XP machine what is using all that diskspace, and it turns out C:\Windows\Installer is high up there on the list of directories that use the most diskspace.  It seems to contain a cache of msi and msp files.  Is it safe to delete those? To save diskspace, I've been deleting the "$KB...$" directories for ages without any problems. I want my Windows Updates in my system, why you would want to uninstall them is something that I have never understood. (Except when you're on an update revision board professionally or something of that order.)
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I have an issue with my home folder and this are giving me some permission problems.    I've installed an application that tells me that I have no permission to save in /home/username/Desktop, but in fact my home is in /home/username/Área de Trabalho (Área de Trabalho = Desktop, but in Portuguese).     Accessing as sudo my home is shown in the below image  (look at the folder icon). (Inside is the desktop folder.)        Accessing as regular user my home is shown in the below image. (Inside is the Área de Trabalho folder.)       Is this normal? Should I tell Ubuntu where my actual home folder is? What I have to do?    Thanx in advance!
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Recently I uninstalled some software using sudo apt-get --purge autoremove, thinking that this would remove all traces of it including unused dependencies and configuration files. However I discovered that a configuration file was left behind in my home folder.  Is there a more powerful command which would remove even that?   Also, is it safe to delete the hidden files and folders under home, if they are merely configuration files, or are there other kinds of files?
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Occasionally, I get part of an application lingering behind on my desktop:    This is part of a context menu for an application. It is always top-most, meaning that it is always on the screen, and I cannot click on it (it just clicks through it). It has happened before, sometimes with whole windows. It remains on screen even if the application it originated from is no longer running.  How do I get rid of it without rebooting?
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I have separate / and /home partitions, of which both use ext4 as their filesystem. How can I merge them, and what is the easiest way?