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#26 2010-04-16 22:11:45

cesura
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From: Tallinn, Estonia
Registered: 2010-01-23
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Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

thisoldman wrote:

I'm sorry I couldn't help earlier, I was at work and didn't read this thread until now.

The creation of a "Desktop" and some other directories is a feature of free.desktop.org's xdg-user-dirs.    This link, https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_f … tId=428359, should give you a solution to stop the creation of unwanted directories.

This solution is also linked from the Arch wiki, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fir … want_it.21

Oh..Uhhhh....I knew that...Yeah I'll go with that hmm

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#27 2010-04-17 02:56:13

Peasantoid
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Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

Hrm. The user-dirs.dirs doesn't stop ~/Desktop creation here. Perhaps it has something to do with me not using a DE?

Mine:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR='/home/me'
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR='/home/me/dl'

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#28 2010-04-17 06:21:29

DonVla
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From: Bonn, Germany
Registered: 2007-06-07
Posts: 997

Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

Peasantoid wrote:

Hrm. The user-dirs.dirs doesn't stop ~/Desktop creation here.

Run

$ xdg-user-dirs-update

after editing the user-dirs file.

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#29 2010-04-17 09:50:18

demian
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From: Frankfurt, Germany
Registered: 2009-05-06
Posts: 709

Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

Thanks for the hint, thisoldman.
I'm not sure whether this will work though since xdg shows me "unknown desktop environment" no matter what xdg command i'm trying to run.
I don't have an /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf or the command xdg-user-dirs-update either.
I created the file in .config nevertheless.

Regards,
demian

Last edited by demian (2010-04-17 09:51:22)


no place like /home
github

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#30 2010-04-17 14:01:22

DonVla
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Posts: 997

Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

@demian:

$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update 
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update is owned by xdg-user-dirs 0.12-1

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#31 2010-04-17 14:06:20

demian
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From: Frankfurt, Germany
Registered: 2009-05-06
Posts: 709

Re: [solved (twice)] Unwanted folders "Desktop" and "Downloads" in $HOME

I've installed it now.

Danke wink.


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