[xubuntu-users] Do I really have to put up with Desktop Downloads Music Public Videos Documents Pictures Templates directories?

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 01:16:07PM +0100, Radomir Dopieralski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:43, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > I don't want nor use all these automatically created directories, apart
> > from anything else I *hate* names with upper case letters as they're so
> > much easier to mistype.
> >
> > They clutter up the namespace at the top level of my home directory and
> > I'd really like to get rid of them.  Is there any 'official' way to get
> > rid of them *and* to stop them reappearing?
> 
> Yes. http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

Aha, excellent, thank you!

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Chris Green