Manpages - user-dirs.conf.5

user-dirs.conf - configuration for xdg-user-dirs-update

The /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf file is a text file that controls the behavior of the xdg-user-dirs-update command. Users can have their own ~/.config/user-dirs.conf file, which overrides the system-wide configuration.

The following keys are recognised:

enabled=/boolean/

When set to False, xdg-user-dirs-update will not change the XDG user dirs configuration.

filename_encoding=/encoding/

This sets the filename encoding to use. encoding can be an explicit encoding name, such as UTF-8, or “locale”, which means the encoding of the users locale will be used.

Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

XDG_CONFIG_DIRS

The system-wide user-dirs.conf file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.

XDG_CONFIG_HOME

The per-user user-dirs.conf file is located in this directory. The default is $HOME/.config.

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