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inp3dance

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Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 106

Gnome predefined places like Documents, Downloads, Videos, etc

Hi,

In distributions like openSuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora there are some predefined places in you home forlder ( Documents, Download, Music, Videos ) with cool icons. How can I easily do that in Arch?
I know that I can create those directories, drag them into nautilus places bar, set the icons for them, but it is long and needs to be redone for every user. Is there a way to make it global?

I have also an openSuSE installaltion, I can copy files from there if it is necessary.

Thank you!

Stebalien

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Registered: 2010-04-27

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Re: Gnome predefined places like Documents, Downloads, Videos, etc

All files in /etc/skel are put in new users' home directories so you can add the folders there.
Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs (or /etc/skell/.config/user-dirs.dirs for all new users).

# Default settings for user directories
#
# The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and
# will be translated on a per-path-element basis into the users locale
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/.templates"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

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inp3dance

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Registered: 2008-06-23

Posts: 106

Re: Gnome predefined places like Documents, Downloads, Videos, etc

That was fast, thank you!