20170822-firefox_desktop_dir.md (1482B)
1 This is probably really picky, but I'm not a fan of the Desktop directory that Firefox defaults to for downloads. As soon as I install Firefox I change the default download dir, but I had noticed that Firefox still created the dir when it started, and it would be the default location when an upload window was opened. 2 3 This had been one of those things that I had lived with, never really looking in to a fix. For some reason today I decided to have a look to see if this behaviour could be fixed, and thankfully I found an answer straight away. 4 5 The file `$HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs` sets a number of default directories, one of which is the Desktop directory. At first I attempted to change the value in the file, and this worked until I rebooted my system. After a reboot the file was regenerated and the Desktop value was back. 6 7 If you have the `xdg-users-dirs` package installed you can run the following 8 ``` 9 xdg-user-dirs-update --set DESKTOP $HOME/ 10 ``` 11 12 If you don't have the package installed you can stop XDG from regenerating the directory by doing the following 13 ``` 14 cat >> $HOME/.config/user-dirs.conf << EOF 15 enabled=False 16 EOF 17 ``` 18 19 Solutions found at the following links 20 21 - [Arch Linux forums](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=996905#p996905) 22 - [AskUbuntu](https://askubuntu.com/questions/48446/how-to-make-permanent-change-to-config-user-dirs-dirs) 23 - [UNIX StackExchange](https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/207216/user-dirs-dirs-reset-at-start-up) 24