USER-DIRS.DEFAULT

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NAME

user-dirs.defaults - default settings for XDG user dirs

DESCRIPTION

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.

USER-DIRS.DEFAULT

NAME

DESCRIPTION

ENVIRONMENT

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