Multiple Users on one system question

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Wed Oct 22 15:54:22 UTC 2025


Hi,
Am Mittwoch, dem 22.10.2025 um 10:25 -0500 schrieb Jay Ridgley:
> 
> Not a complete list but these directories should be included, but
> they 
> are NOT...
> 
> Desktop
> Documents
> Downloads
> Music
> Pictures
> Public
> Templates

These are created by the xdg-user-dirs package on first login usually
...

during login /usr/bin/xdg-user-dirs-update is executed and it parses
the /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults file or (if it exists)
$HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs ...

You can turn this on and off in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf or by simply
removing the xdg-user-dirs package (though that might also remove
metapackages that depend on xdg-user-dirs)

ciao
	oli




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