I installed endeavour os offline edition and later i installed bspwm and i3.
after that i tried to install dwm.
Then when i checked xfce every contents in the home folder is on the desktop.
they are not shortcuts (I tested, I created a folder in home and checked the desktop…It is there and i deleted that folder from desktop, it was not there in home folder)
So please help.
Check if you have xdg-user-dirs package installed and its service enabled.
pacman -Qsq xdg-user-dirs && systemctl --user status xdg-user-dirs-update
Actually it hides everything on desktop , right?
Yeah I don’t use icons in desktop. So this is a good solution for me.
But Does anybody know the real reason of showing … in the desktop?
What shows ls ~/Desktop ?
There was nothing in ~/Desktop.
I created a folder in ~/Desktop and it was not shown in desktop. there were only ~/.
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How do these things even happen. Don’t get it. 
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Maybe/probably related.
In short, the user directories are not properly (or not at all, to be correct) defined/exported, so they all default to $HOME.
If OP exports them, the issue will be solved (properly) AFAIK.
Example user-dirs.dirs:
$ grep -i xdg .config/user-dirs.dirs
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Επιφάνεια εργασίας"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Λήψεις"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Πρότυπα"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Δημόσια"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Έγγραφα"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Μουσική"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Εικόνες"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Βίντεο"
There is also a gtk package.
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