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To take control of your $HOME, first take control of XDG-generated directories: cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.Desktop"
by sam_lowry_ 4y ago
To take control of your $HOME, first take control of XDG-generated directories:
cat ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$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 DESKTOP has to be different from DOWNLOAD because Chromium ~sucks~ is the new IE https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/5e4e38173b33159b0ebd8eb53a73ace575430024/chrome/browser/download/download_prefs.cc#L74-L95 https://github.com/chromium/chromium/blob/5e4e38173b33159b0e...
- sshine 4y agoI just delete those directories once and don’t use any programs that use them, except Firefox which uses ‘Downloads’, which I’m happy with.