mozilla not creating ~/Desktop etc
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This blog post is based on http://evolvisforge.blog.tarent.de/archives/124 .
Mozilla Firefox has a tentancy to create a ~/Desktop directory among others (things like ~/Downloads). If you want to prevent this, you can use the following commands:
mkdir -p -m0700 ~/.config cat >~/.config/user-dirs.dirs <<EOF XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/" EOF Upon next start, Firefox (and other XDG-compliant applications) will throw stuff into ~/ instead.