What if you want to use something else, like your Dropbox folder?
Here we look at how to use any folder for your desktop.
In this example, were going to change desktop to show our Dropbox folder.
Open your home folder in a File online window by clicking on Places > Home Folder.
In the Home Folder, pop launch the .config folder.
Then fire up the .config folder by double-clicking on it.
Now bring up the user-dirs.dirs file… Change the entry associated with XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to the folder you want to be shown as your desktop.
In our case, this is $HOME/Dropbox.
a path starting with /) will work.
Feel free to change the locations of the other folders as well.
Save and close user-dirs.dirs.
