On 2/23/2013 4:58 PM, P Bielecki wrote:
23.02.2013 20:44, John Hupp:
I understand that the Public folder for each user is a vestige of
other/older implementations that employed the Personal File Sharing tool
(gnome-user-share). It gives the impression of being like a Windows
"Shared Documents folder but does not function as such.
It can be deleted, but something restores it again.
Does anyone know how to permanently delete this for each/all users?
Hi John,
I think the mentioned dirs are created at user login by
/usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update
executed from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/60xdg-user-dirs-update
Have a look in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf and try setting
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=""
or perhaps
enabled=False
or changing content of the following for each individual user:
~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
I hope this helps.
cheers!
Thanks for the very helpful clues (and to Chris Green for confirming
part 2 of that).
Since I was more interested in a global application, I looked at
/etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf.
The portion of interest there reads:
# This controls the behaviour of xdg-user-dirs-update which is run on
user login
# You can also have per-user config in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf, or specify
# the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and/or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to override this
#
enabled=True
I don't know what "or specify the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and/or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
to override this" means -- where, for instance, those values should be
specified.
But it seemed to me that setting enabled=False here might cause
xdg-user-dirs-update not to run. And again, I don't know what the
consequences of that would be.
There didn't seem to be support for entering XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="" here
in this file.
But sitting right there also is /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults. And there,
changing PUBLICSHARE=Public to PUBLICSHARE= gave me what I was looking for.
Oddly enough, event with key search words from your post, I could not
find official documentation of this anywhere at wiki.ubuntu.com or
help.ubuntu.com. There is https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TIPs_of_use_ubuntu
which looks relevant, but there is something wrong with the page's
coding and its rendering makes it nearly useless.
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