USER-DIRS.DEFAULT(5)

NAME
user-dirs.defaults - default settings for XDG user dirs

DESCRIPTION

The /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults file is a text file that contains the default values for the XDG user dirs which are used by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

This file contains lines of the form

    NAME=VALUE

The following names are recognised:
    DESKTOP
    DOWNLOAD
    TEMPLATES
    PUBLICSHARE
    DOCUMENTS
    MUSIC
    PICTURES
    VIDEOS

The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and will be translated on a per-path-element basis into the users locale.

Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

ENVIRONMENT

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
    The user-dirs.defaults file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.

SEE ALSO

xdg-user-dirs-update(1)

AUTHOR

Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
    Developer