I'm attempting to rename my special folders. As per my understanding, there are two ways to specify this.
- Local, ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
- Global, /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
I've changed both locations to my desired configuration. But everytime I do xdg-user-dirs-update, it removes all my settings and rewrites it to point to $HOME.
Why is this happening? I can't see anything in the documentation I'm missing.
Would it hurt me just to disable the feature and make my own folders?
$HOME
.xdg-user-dirs-update
seems to disable the corresponding user dirs by setting their$XDG_*_DIR
variables to$HOME
. So, to fix this, make sure to first create the directories and then runxdg-user-dirs-update
. Then your~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
shouldn't change, either.