[FC7] Unnecessary directories in $HOME

[John Horne]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 08:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> 
> 
> >> Uninstall xdg-user-dirs-gtk and not xdg-user-dirs or change the
> >> setting in under .config. This isn't GNOME specific btw.
> >>
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Unfortunately this doesn't work. I have just installed F7 on my work PC,
> > and in trying to remove xdg-user-dirs-gtk found that it is not
> > installed. During installation I asked to have KDE installed and not
> > GNOME.
> > 
> > I have tried editing the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file by setting the
> > directory names to nothing, or removing the lines completely. However,
> > whenever I log back in, the .config files and the directories are there
> > again.
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> edit either /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf or ~/.config/user-dirs.conf to include
> enabled=False
>
Hurrah! That worked. I must admit I didn't look in /etc to see if there
was a file there. The files in the home directory didn't indicate
anything about an 'enabled' option to disable their use.

Many thanks,

John.

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