Re: What is creating directories under my home directory?
Get rid of your "Graphical File Manager". If that is not an option, delete
the directories and create plain files with those names. This will prevent
the *directories* from being created, You will of course have the names
there. I don't think there is really anything you can do about that.
Unless you re-create your desktop env from the ground up, you won't be able to
uninstall the Graphical File Manager (whatever it is), as attempting to "apt
purge" it will also remove your entire desktop environment.
At least this is true of the main desktop environments: eg Gnome, Mate, and
KDE. Xfce4 is more "forgiving" and can be installed in a piecemeal / a la
carte fashion. I use *selected* bits of Xfce4 (panel and applets) along with
my home-grown "session manager" (coded in Tcl/Tk) and fvwm2 as my window
manager.
So long as you are using the "mainstream" (?) desktop environments, you will
have these "junk" directories and don't bother complaining to the Gnome / Mate
/ or KDE developers. This is the main legacy of Steve Jobs that will haunt us
for the rest of eternity.
At Sat, 27 Sep 2025 18:02:10 -0400 Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
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> Dear Debian-users,
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> I delete the "Templates", "Videos", "Music", etc, directories under my
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> I want to turn this abuse off.
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> What package is doing this so I can remove it with extreme prejudice?
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> Thank you.
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> Curt-
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