Arch Linux

imaw

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Registered: 2024-06-06

Posts: 2

Empty Home Directory

Hi everyone, I am new in this forum, also It is my first time using arch, I have been using Ubuntu for a while.
I just installed the arch with the archinstall tool.
In the install I choosed the awesome WM, I also created one user with root permisions.

Once installed, I did not notice, I was installing some packages but then I saw that in my home directory I have no folders, I have only the ,bashrc files and some hidden folders

[luis@archlinux ~]$ ls -la
total 64
drwx------  8 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 21:31 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 4096 Jun  6 00:59 ..
-rw-------  1 luis luis 3457 Jun  6 18:13 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 luis luis   21 Jan 16 11:48 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 luis luis  143 Jun  6 11:11 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 luis luis  193 Jun  6 11:11 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 11 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 10:52 .cache
drwxr-xr-x 11 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 17:52 .config
drwx------  4 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 10:52 .local
drwx------  3 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 10:32 .pki
-rw-r--r--  1 luis luis   21 Jun  6 11:11 .profile
-rw-------  1 luis luis 4517 Jun  6 02:08 .viminfo
drwxr-xr-x  3 luis luis 4096 Jun  6 17:52 .vscode-oss
-rw-------  1 luis luis   54 Jun  6 21:31 .Xauthority

I tried create the folders using the command

mkhomedir_helper

and also I tried to create the home directory from the skel

 sudo pacman -S $(pacman -Qoq /etc/skel) 

my skel directory only contains the same files that I already have in my home dir.

Any help would be appreciated.

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,910

Re: Empty Home Directory

Are the directories you expected to be created managed by XDG_user_directories?

imaw

Member

Registered: 2024-06-06

Posts: 2

Re: Empty Home Directory

Yes, thank you so much, I was missing those directories, after installing the xdg_user_dirs and run the update, now I have all the directories.