Is it possible to get rid of the (IMHO) stupid Desktop directory and the concept that goes with it? If my screen is anywhere I want it to be my home directory, not ~/Desktop. I can delete ~/Desktop but it just gets recreated whenever I do anything like open a terminal 'here'.
Why can't I just get a terminal to open at /home/chris when I right click on my screen?
(Not to mention the silliness of all those directories like Pictures, Videos, etc. starting with an uppercase letter)
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Chris G wrote:
Is it possible to get rid of the (IMHO) stupid Desktop directory and the concept that goes with it? If my screen is anywhere I want it to be my home directory, not ~/Desktop. I can delete ~/Desktop but it just gets recreated whenever I do anything like open a terminal 'here'.
Why can't I just get a terminal to open at /home/chris when I right click on my screen?
(Not to mention the silliness of all those directories like Pictures, Videos, etc. starting with an uppercase letter)
Are you on Ubuntu? Try editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Richard
On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 10:08:18PM +0100, Richard Parsons wrote:
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Chris G wrote:
Is it possible to get rid of the (IMHO) stupid Desktop directory and the concept that goes with it? If my screen is anywhere I want it to be my home directory, not ~/Desktop. I can delete ~/Desktop but it just gets recreated whenever I do anything like open a terminal 'here'.
Why can't I just get a terminal to open at /home/chris when I right click on my screen?
(Not to mention the silliness of all those directories like Pictures, Videos, etc. starting with an uppercase letter)
Are you on Ubuntu? Try editing ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
Well, Xubuntu, but near enough. Exactly what I wanted to know, thanks, now I can get rid of silly uppercase letters *and* Desktop.
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