Nautilus bookmarks are not updated after username change

[Tom Slominski]

Hello. After I installed my system, I realised that I set the username to "laptop" and called my machine "tom". This annoyed me greatly, so I changed it using gnome-control-center. Later, I realised that when trying to open folders like "Pictures" and "Videos" by searching in the Unity dash, I would get an error similar to "Could not find /home/laptop/Pictures". I expected the Unity dash to open my Pictures folder. To fix this, I edited the file "/home/tom/.gtk-bookmarks" so it reads:

file:///home/tom/Documents
file:///home/tom/Music
file:///home/tom/Pictures
file:///home/tom/Videos
file:///home/tom/Downloads

instead of:

file:///home/laptop/Documents
file:///home/laptop/Music
file:///home/laptop/Pictures
file:///home/laptop/Videos
file:///home/laptop/Downloads

Obviously, this should've been done by gnome-control-center. After 3-4 years of using Linux it took me a while to work out how to fix this, and an average user definitely would not know what to do in this situation.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-17.30-generic 3.0.22
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-17-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 30 20:05:10 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-05 (54 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 deja-dup 20.1-0ubuntu0.2
 gnome-bluetooth 3.2.0-0ubuntu2
 indicator-datetime 0.3.1-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Tom Slominski (tomslominski)]

I wasn't able to reproduce the bug on Ubuntu 13.04. However, I had to use 'sudo usermod -m -d /home/user2 -l user2 user1' instead of the GUI, since Ubuntu 13.04 no longer includes a GUI for changing the username.