On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:29:50 +0200, Stanisław Findeisen wrote: > On 2011-07-19 16:54, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:52:17 +0000, Liam O'Toole wrote: >> >>> On 2011-07-19, Stanisław Findeisen <s...@eisenbits.com> wrote: >>> >>> (...) >>> >>>> Hm, I just deleted all those funny dirs in my $HOME: Music, >>>> Pictures... and Desktop. When I rebooted (or so) I found all my $HOME >>>> subdirs (well, at least many) on the desktop. >>>> >>>> How to disable that? >>>> >>>> I disabled /apps/nautilus/preferences/desktop_is_home_dir and I >>>> recreated $HOME/Desktop, and even rebooted, but it didn't help. >>>> >>>> ?? >>>> >>>> This is Debian Squeeze (and GNOME). >>> >>> Sounds like the work of xdg-user-dirs: >>> >>> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs >> >> There is a package available with that name ("xdg-user-dirs"), may be >> it is required to tweak and set that settings :-? > > In $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs I changed the line: > > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME" > > to: > > XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" > > and commented out the rest. > > This removed the icons from the desktop, but also recreated those > Pictures ... etc. dirs.
I also wonder what all that pre-set folders are for. It should be nice to have a simple "switch" to turn them off/on. > Then I tried this: > > # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update > # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're > # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run > # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$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/tmp" > XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/tmp" > > and it seems to work (no icons, no dirs) however I don't know if it has > any side effect or not. I hope not. It is intended for user customization. But does your user have a "/tmp" folder? :-? > Uninstalling xdg-user-dirs is not possible since Gnome depends on it. In > fact, Gnome depends even on packages such as evolution-plugins or > totem-mozilla. 8-| Mmm, I can't tell for that. At least in lenny that package (xdg-user- dirs) is not required by others, just a couple of them: sm01@stt008:~$ apt-cache rdepends xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs Reverse Depends: xdg-user-dirs-gtk elisa-plugins-good Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.07.20.15.12...@gmail.com
