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Hi all,
Is there any way to get rid of the standard folders in home directories (Desktop, Documents, Downloads. Images, Music and Videos)?
I never use them and have trouble finding a way of permanently deleting them.
Thanks.
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Can you be more precise about that "trouble"? What happens if you delete them?
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Sounds like XDG User Directories:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … irs-update
However in my experience I have to go out of my way to create them in the first place - the utility (xdg-user-dirs-update) isn't installed by default with Xfce4. It might be with a different desktop environment.
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wine creates some of those folders outside of "~/.wine" too, you can disable this with winecfg, if I remember correctly it is in the "desktop integration"-tab.
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Gnome installs it on its own.
And so does Firefox, at least the Desktop-Folder.
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I don't see the point in deleting them, but I'm not going to question why.
I know that Caja (MATE's file manager) requires at least a Desktop folder to be there within a users home directory before it starts.
Claire is fine.
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This page should offer some ideas on how to manage them to your liking. "Best" advise would be to point them all at your $HOME folder or various apps that expect to be able to find them with probably cry
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"Best" advise would be to point them all at your $HOME folder or various apps that expect to be able to find them with probably cry
This did the trick indeed
I don't see the point in deleting them, but I'm not going to question why.
Then why post your remark? I never knew they could be renamed of be given another path. Thats why I wanted them of off my system. (the default configuration with uppercase names and path wasnt to my liking at all)
Thanks everybody
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I don't see the point in deleting them, but I'm not going to question why.
Then why post your remark? I never knew they could be renamed of be given another path. Thats why I wanted them of off my system. (the default configuration with uppercase names and path wasnt to my liking at all)
Hey, bud,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … way_Street
Also: edit your first post and put "[Solved]" somewhere in the title.
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General XDG tip for the interested. You can keep HOME clean and make systems faster putting throwaway stuff in tmpfs. I use /etc/profile.d scripts. Trash can get tricky.
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Mine never had all cap names, though. (Even before I translated most of them to a language more to my liking...)
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Well I barely ever look at them so the title doesn't matter except to explain itself in file listings. To each his own. If you use them sure give decent names but include the $USER var in it.
KDE needs some help too.
/etc/profile.d/05-kde-custom.sh
# KDE cache can take 1 GiB of disk, move out of /var/tmp
# and remember /var/tmp stuff is NOT deleted on reboots
# by Linux convention (which we violate on purpose).
unset KDEVARTMP
export KDEVARTMP="/tmp/KDEVARTMP_$USER"
mkdir "${KDEVARTMP}" 2> /dev/null
unset KDETMP
export KDETMP="/tmp/KDETMP_$USER"
mkdir "${KDETMP}" 2> /dev/null
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Lots of browsers (firefox, chromium etc) are configured to use both Downloads and Desktop folder unless you configure them otherwise. This might be why you have ``trouble'' deleting them permanently, browsers recreate those folders if they can't find them
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I have always been bothered by the "Desktop" folder, that either pidgin or firefox creates regularly. A few years back, a fellow archer came up with "rmshit" to delete crap as it was created.
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97979
I never tried it though.
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