Installing a minimal version of Ubuntu does not have the usual folders of Documents, Downloads, etc. in Home. Is there a way to have them just as it is in regular installs?
2 Answers
You are probably just missing the xdg-user-dirs-gtk
and xdg-user-dirs
packages. Install them and they should take care of the rest (you might have to log out and log back in to see the changes).
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@arrange - Why are they even missing? XDG is a core part of FreeDesktop.org. Perhaps report a bug? Feb 20, 2011 at 17:15
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1@doctormo - as Toki Tahmid writes, this is a minimal install. The package does not reverse depend on anything essential, it is also "Priority: optional", so I don't see any bug here. I don't have it on my system myself as I use different folders than default install.– arrangeFeb 20, 2011 at 17:28
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1Haha, I didn't get it was a question, English is not my first language, sorry. So - from the package's description: "This extension sets the Gtk bookmark file and tracks changes of the locale to notify the user on login about changed directory names."– arrangeFeb 20, 2011 at 17:56
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1As for the cursor, try the
dmz-cursor-theme
package. This should add a white cursor to cursor options.– arrangeFeb 20, 2011 at 17:59
It's odd that you don't have those folders... they're not taking up much space on the CD. Do you have these folders when you make a new user?
To put them back, create the folders with the right names, then go
gedit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Edit the directories by adding or changing the directories to suite, for example:
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"