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In out-of-the-box distros when I add a user I have a documents, pictures, templates folders etc and they each have a designated places icon which changes with each icon theme. How do I achieve this in Arch Linux. I want to add a new user with a documents and pictures folder and there proper places icon. Ideally, I would like to do this using my current user. In nautilus I can manually change my folder icon but this is not respected by other DEs and FMs. I am pretty sure I have to use xdg-user-dirs-gtk and /etc/skel and folder desktop files. Any help or link to a wiki would be great. I have looked in the archwiki and done extensive googling. I found this thread https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=95767 but I do not understand what is said in it.
Last edited by quasifilmie (2012-03-09 16:58:53)
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I am pretty sure I have to use xdg-user-dirs-gtk and /etc/skel and folder desktop files.
xdg-user-dirs-gtk should do the trick. If your icon theme offers dedicated folders for all the stuff, they will be automatically applied as soon as one of the config files--user-dir.dirs--lands in $HOME/.config. Run 'xdg-user-dirs-update' to achieve that.
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Wow that was so simple! Thanks boohoomil. Marking as solved.
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