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		tadfisher on Feb 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put ... You can set the XDG environment variables in Direnv maybe?

account42 on Feb 10, 2023 [–]

The Desktop, Downloads, Pictures, etc. directories are not from the XDG Basedir spec and not set by XDG_ environment variables but instead in the $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/user-dirs.dirs file. I also find these less useful than the more generel data/config/cache dirs.

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