I already posted this above, but here is a repost, because I know exactly how you feel: cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.De

I already posted this above, but here is a repost, because I know exactly how you feel: cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/tmp" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/tmp" Note that XDG_DESKTOP_DIR and XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR have to point to different directories. In hindsight, this is obvious, but this is also a really stupid "security" bug-o-feature that costed countless hours to countless people.