Just a quickie. You want to know which file holds your GNOME2 desktop icon layout, sizes, emblems, and so on?

Look no further than $HOME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home*

I assume Mate (being a fork of Gnome2) has somewhere similar. GNOME3? No idea.

So prior to yesterday, my new and clean $HOME had not seen any X session at all. No freedesktop defined XDG base directories.

Then I logged in and…

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So as hinted yesterday, GNOME2 + pekwm. Here it is, in three simple steps. Continue reading →