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I'm not seeing it. Where does XDG define when and how an app should use: /home/user/Documents/ /home/user/Downloads/ /home/user/Pictures/ /home/user/Videos/
by themodelplumber 8y ago
I'm not seeing it. Where does XDG define when and how an app should use:
/home/user/Documents/
/home/user/Downloads/
/home/user/Pictures/
/home/user/Videos/
Let me know what I'm missing.
- nycticorax 8y agoI can't find "official" XDG documentation of this, but the Arch Wiki describes, for instance, the XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR and XDG_VIDEOS_DIR environment variables: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/XDG_user_directories It looks like maybe the "official" documentation is here: http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/xdg-user-dirs-0.17.tar.gz http://user-dirs.freedesktop.org/releases/xdg-user-dirs-0.17... But I haven't gone through that carefully.
- petemc_ 8y agoWhy would it have to define those directories in particular?
- amlib 8y agoYou should be able to change the default settings for these directories by changing /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults (system-wide) and ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (users override)