NAME
user-dirs.defaults – default settings for XDG user dirsDESCRIPTION
The /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults file is a text file that contains the default values for the XDG user dirs which are used by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.
This file contains lines of the form
-
NAME=VALUE
The following names are recognised:
- DESKTOP
- DOWNLOAD
- TEMPLATES
- PUBLICSHARE
- DOCUMENTS
- MUSIC
- PICTURES
- VIDEOS
The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and will be translated on a per-path-element basis into the users locale.
Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.
ENVIRONMENT
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
- The user-dirs.defaults file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.
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