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#1 2014-11-07 23:14:38
- karol
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Does setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME work?
Does setting e.g. XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME work? It doesn't work for me.
If, however, I set it to /home/karol, the Desktop directory doesn't get recreated when starting firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/985990
Can someone test it? If I'm right, I'd like to add this to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … irectories
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#3 2014-11-08 00:40:17
- Trilby
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Re: Does setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME work?
Is that a bug then? None of the other XDG dirs require a trailing slash to work properly.
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#4 2014-11-08 01:42:30
- tonk
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Re: Does setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME work?
I would say it's a bug in setting $HOME without trailing slash 
(yes, i know the problem with dirs and symlinks (edit: i just realized then you cant write $HOME/etc 
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But since the other XDG dirs are working without, yes, seems like a bug.
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#5 2014-11-13 22:53:09
- karol
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Re: Does setting XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to $HOME work?
Is it caused by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-use … g-user-dir where Desktop gets a special treatment?
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