Originally Posted by
Holger_Gehrke
There should be a file named 'user-dirs.dir' in the hidden directory '~/.config'. The names for standard directories are set in this file and these directories are created during system start-up if they don't exist. Edit that file to contain the names you want the directories to have and the problem should be fixed ...
Holger
Originally Posted by
CatKiller
In general, no. In this case, it's
xdg-user-dirs doing exactly what it's supposed to: making sure you have the standard directories and making sure they're called what you've configured them to be called.
It's easy to configure those directories to be called something else. The whole point of the XDG spec is to separate their name from their function, for localisation, and user preference, and the like.
Apparently, and I have long since forgotten, but this must have been how I changed the directory names to begin with. This is the contents of that file:
Code:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/videos"
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