MooseBoys comments on D or d come on

[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 47 points 2 years ago (8 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.

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[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 37 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Porque no los dos?

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Something something symlink Downloads to downloads

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[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

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

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[+] Number358@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] paperplane@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

This is all fun and games until you try moving a backup to a file system that's case-insensitive

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[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

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[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years 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.

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