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Re: Free Desktop Directores in $HOME
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Timothy G Abbott)
Mon Mar 17 19:03:44 2008
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:03:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: athena10@mit.edu
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Anders and I discussed this for a while, and concluded that a better
solution is probably to change /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults.
The current draft solution (debathena-desktop-config in the Debathena
locker) instead "replaces" that file for users AFS home directories (by
checking DEBATHENA_HOME_TYPE in a script in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/).
We set the following defaults:
DESKTOP=Desktop
DOWNLOAD=Desktop
TEMPLATES=
PUBLICSHARE=Public
DOCUMENTS=
MUSIC=
PICTURES=
VIDEOS=
($HOME is prepended to each of these before being copied into a file in
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs).
-Tim Abbott
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> People were complaining in the office today about their Athena home
> directories being spammed with directories with names:
>
> * Documents
> * Music
> * Pictures
> * Templates
> * Videos
>
> created whenever they login to zsr (or any other Debathena Gutsy machine).
>
> This behavior can be disabled by doing
>
> sed -i 's/^enabled=True$/enabled=False/' /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
>
> Is this something that we want to configure for debathena-workstation? I
> suspect that our users would appreciate not having these directories created
> automatically in their home directory every time they login (it's pretty
> obnoxious behavior; though it may be user-configurable by editing
> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs).
>
> -Tim Abbott
>
