USER-DIRS.DEFAULT(5) File Formats 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)
XDG USER-DIRS.DEFAULT(5)