David Wright composed on 2023-09-15 22:22 (UTC-0500): > On Fri 15 Sep 2023 at 21:24:53 (-0400), Curt Howland wrote:
>> On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say: >>> I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and >>> "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those >>> directories. >> Found /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, changed to "enable=False", no change. >> Found $/.config/user-dirs.dirs, commented out the ones I didn't want, >> no change. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs reverted to original on >> logout/login. >> Changed all the pointers in $/.config/user-dirs.dirs to "Desktop" so >> that no other directory would be created, success. Deleted >> directories stay deleted. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs not reverting >> to original form on logout/login. >> What an immense waste of time. I can understand having the directories >> created once, when the user is created. This automatic regeneration >> is utterly pointless and annoying. > AIUI (which is not very well), this comes with the territory when you > install a Desktop Environment. > If you don't really want "Desktop" either, then according to: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/ > > you can set all those environment variables to point to your $HOME > directory. (The Note that follows explains that just deleting > (≡commenting out) a variable doesn't work.) Example ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file written 4 years ago that WFM: # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an # absolute path. No other format is supported. # XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop/" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents/" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="/home/downloads/" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/home/AV/music/" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/home/AV/pix/" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="/home/pub/" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="/home/" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="/home/AV/videos/" -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
