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vivianne

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Registered: 2024-02-11

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I've deleted ~/Desktop but it keeps reappearing

I really hate capital letters in directory names, so I've moved all my stuff to point to downloads and documents instead of Downloads and Documents. But for whatever reason Desktop keeps reappearing. What is making it happen and how do i stop it?

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: I've deleted ~/Desktop but it keeps reappearing

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_user_directories

vivianne

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Registered: 2024-02-11

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Re: I've deleted ~/Desktop but it keeps reappearing

thanks!

mountaintrek

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Registered: 2024-02-01

Posts: 60

Re: I've deleted ~/Desktop but it keeps reappearing

On XFCE, I have changed desktop directory names in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs & logged off/on.  In my case, I put Music, Pictures, Videos all under Media. When I used KDE, it had a GUI Settings page that allowed the user to change the directory names.

In addition to the arch wiki, the site Freedesktop.org has the specifications for anything XDG, mime , .desktop related, and more, if you'd like to get more info. The wiki does mention it too.

The command

declare -p ${!XDG@}

shows all environment variables that begin with XDG.