On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:08 AM, John Hupp <lubu...@prpcompany.com> wrote: > On 2/23/2013 4:58 PM, P Bielecki wrote: > > 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.
Since Public directories are empty, and thus they occupy almost no space at all, is it really necessary to delete them? -- Ioannis Vranos http://www.cppsoftware.net -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
