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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep filling those bugs and stop complaining on random forums, kids

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something something symlink Downloads to downloads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the main issue is that I don’t want there to be a Downloads directory in my home.

[–] zlatko 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not an environment variable. It's defined in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/user-dirs.dirs.

Though you can use the xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD command to get it automatically.