I'm running F19-mate-beta. The desktop is blank but there are files in the /home/me/Desktop folder. I am also unable to drag files to the desktop. mate-desktop-1.6.1-8.fc19.x86_64 Contents of .config/user-dirs.dirs XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/"
Please do a yum downgrade mate-file-manager. You should have mate-file-manager.1.6.1-6.fc19 -7 was unpushed.