user-dirs.dirs
XDG
Developer
Alexander
Larsson
alexl@redhat.com
user-dirs.dirs
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File Formats
user-dirs.dirs
settings for XDG user dirs
Description
The $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is a
text file that contains the user-specific values for the XDG user dirs.
It is created and updated by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.
This file contains lines of the form
XDG_NAME_DIR=VALUE
The following names are recognised:
DESKTOP
DOWNLOAD
TEMPLATES
PUBLICSHARE
DOCUMENTS
MUSIC
PICTURES
VIDEOS
VALUE must be of the form
"$HOME/Path" or "/Path".
Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.
The format of user-dirs.dirs is
designed to allow direct sourcing of this file in shell scripts.
Environment
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
The user-dirs.defaults file
is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.
See Also
xdg-user-dirs-update1