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er9999

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Registered: 2015-11-24

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[SOLVED] /home/user/Desktop directory being auto generated

I'm using arch with i3wm, and no desktop environment.

what keeps regenerating the Desktop directory that I'm deleting over and over again ?

Last edited by er9999 (2015-11-25 10:19:57)

FlyingHappy

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From: Cincinnati, OH

Registered: 2011-04-18

Posts: 192

Re: [SOLVED] /home/user/Desktop directory being auto generated

Usefull little thing from google.  Hope it helps somewhat, I've never bothered thinking about it.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions … top-folder

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

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Re: [SOLVED] /home/user/Desktop directory being auto generated

some application is creating xdg user directories.
You should be able to disable it by changing XDG_DESKTOP_DIR in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 4,092

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Re: [SOLVED] /home/user/Desktop directory being auto generated

some application is creating xdg user directories.
You should be able to disable it by changing XDG_DESKTOP_DIR in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs like this:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"

To learn more about XDG see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xd … irectories

er9999

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Registered: 2015-11-24

Posts: 4

Re: [SOLVED] /home/user/Desktop directory being auto generated

user-dirs.dirs did the trick

thanks all.