Re: XDG and Freedesktop

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: XDG and Freedesktop
Date	2025-07-03 16:37 +0100
Organization	A little, after lunch
Message-ID	<104683b$8106$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 03/07/2025 15:55, John Ames wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 23:41:50 -0000 (UTC)
> Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> 
>> So let us know, what exactly is/are the piece(s) of software that are
>> recreating these folders when you try to delete them?
> 
> No idea - they just keep mysteriously re-appearing.
> 

IIRC when I had a rash of these, it turned out that there was a file in 
.config that listed folders that had to be created on desktop startup. 
If they werent present...

~/.config$ more user-dirs.dirs
# 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_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

I see that has been edited to remove most of the more offensive ones
-- 
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way of 
making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people 
who pay no price for being wrong.”

Thomas Sowell

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                Re: XDG and Freedesktop (was: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.) Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-29 23:58 +0000
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                Re: XDG and Freedesktop The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-03 16:37 +0100
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                Re: XDG and Freedesktop The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-02 09:27 +0100
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