Path to Desktop directory when localized environment is used

[Florian Diesch]

fred f <ffred69 at gmail.com> writes:

>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Am Donnerstag, den 21.07.2011, 16:57 +0200 schrieb fred f
>>> <ffred69 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> How can I found out %subject% in script, because some localization
>>>> have changed the default ~/Desktop to localized names.
>>>
>>> xdg-user-dir DESKTOP
>
> thanks for fast response, can I use this command for any usual distro
> or it is ubuntu's "speciality".

It's part of the xdg-user-dirs software package from
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs so it's not Ubuntu
specific.

I don't know if it's part of all major distros but as it's a quite
simple shell script you can just copy the code.

   Florian
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