when something is copied into a user home directory as root and then chown -R username /home/username command is run the /home/Desktop Folder icon will appear on the desktop itself! (file/launcher icons turned on desktop) 1) as root copy something into home directory of a user that is currently logged in e.g $su cp -R /root/something/ /home/siimo/ 2) recursively change the ownership of the users home dir to the same user chown -R siimo /home/siimo 3) a icon called Desltop appears on the desktop - clicking on it will show contents of the desktop this icon goes away when changing desktop settings to not display file/launchers and back again.
Actually thanks to mmassonnet @ #xfce, any operation to ~/Desktop makes this happen. e.g. touch ~/Desktop even as user
Can reproduce this with XFCE 4.4beta1 (Debian unstable package): $ mkdir Desktop // The Desktop directory appears. '$ touch Desktop' is the same Pressing F5 makes it to disappear. Maybe a refresh is missing somewhere.
Does this still occur with 4.4beta2? I can't reproduce it.
Odd, I can reproduce it on one machine, but not on another. Either way, fixed.