user-dirs.defaults

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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)

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