Re: XDG and Freedesktop

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
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