Re: What is creating directories under my home directory?

[Mike Castle <dalgoda+debian@gmail.com>]

In my XFCE setup, under Settings -> Session and Startup -> Application
Autostart I disabled the following "Programs":

User folders update (Update common folders names to match current locale)
User folders update
User folders update


I forget why there are _two_ "User folders update".  They came from
different packages (like one shared one and one specific Desktop
Environments (DE).

For XFCE, toggling those resulted in new files under .config/autostart:

Oh, look, it is actually three!  Maybe one has a different value in the title?

$ find .config/autostart | grep user
.config/autostart/xdg-user-dirs.desktop
.config/autostart/xdg-user-dirs-kde.desktop
.config/autostart/user-dirs-update-gtk.desktop

$ cat .config/autostart/xdg-user-dirs.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=true


I think, in theory, these are all supposed to be reused by the various
DEs, those are likely to survive any experiments you do when exploring
different ones.

Unless, of course, like apparently the KDE and GTK ones above,
anything you install adds their own.  So much for reuse?

mrc