On Fri 15 Sep 2023 at 21:24:53 (-0400), Curt Howland wrote: > On Friday 15 September 2023, Curt Howland was heard to say: > > I'm not interested in having directories like "Public" and > > "Videos", but every time I delete them something recreates those > > directories. > > Found /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf, changed to "enable=False", no change. > > Found $/.config/user-dirs.dirs, commented out the ones I didn't want, > no change. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs reverted to original on > logout/login. > > Changed all the pointers in $/.config/user-dirs.dirs to "Desktop" so > that no other directory would be created, success. Deleted > directories stay deleted. File $/.config/user-dirs.dirs not reverting > to original form on logout/login. > > What an immense waste of time. I can understand having the directories > created once, when the user is created. This automatic regeneration > is utterly pointless and annoying.
AIUI (which is not very well), this comes with the territory when you install a Desktop Environment. If you don't really want "Desktop" either, then according to: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs/ you can set all those environment variables to point to your $HOME directory. (The Note that follows explains that just deleting (≡commenting out) a variable doesn't work.) Cheers, David.