>I wish I could! But ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads keep getting re-created by ... something :-/ I tried setting XDG_{DESKTOP,DOWNLOAD}_DIR but it seems to get ignor

>I wish I could! But ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads keep getting re-created by ... something :-/ I tried setting XDG_{DESKTOP,DOWNLOAD}_DIR but it seems to get ignored. Been annoying me for years. Perhaps something like: ln -s /dev/null ~/Desktop ln -s /dev/null ~/Downloads etc. That would solve the problem, no?