user-dirs.dirs(5) [centos man page]

USER-DIRS.DIRS(5)						   File Formats 						 USER-DIRS.DIRS(5)

NAME

       user-dirs.dirs - settings for XDG user dirs

DESCRIPTION

       The $HOME/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is a text file that contains the user-specific values for the XDG user dirs. It is created and
       updated by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

       This file contains lines of the form

	   XDG_NAME_DIR=VALUE

       The following names are recognised:
	   DESKTOP
	   DOWNLOAD
	   TEMPLATES
	   PUBLICSHARE
	   DOCUMENTS
	   MUSIC
	   PICTURES
	   VIDEOS

       VALUE must be of the form "$HOME/Path" or "/Path".

       Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

       The format of user-dirs.dirs is designed to allow direct sourcing of this file in shell scripts.

ENVIRONMENT

       XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
	   The user-dirs.defaults file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.

SEE ALSO

       xdg-user-dirs-update(1)

XDG
																 USER-DIRS.DIRS(5)

xdg-user-dir(1) 						   User Commands						   xdg-user-dir(1)

NAME

       xdg-user-dir - Get the path used for desktop user directory location.

SYNOPSIS

       xdg-user-dir DIR

DESCRIPTION

       xdg-user-dir is a utility that extracts the location of the specified desktop user directory from the file :

	   ${HOME}/.config/user-dirs.dirs

OPERANDS

       Valid desktop directories (DIR) are:

	       DESKTOP
	       DOWNLOAD
	       TEMPLATES
	       PUBLICSHARE
	       DOCUMENTS
	       MUSIC
	       PICTURES
	       VIDEOS

       If an invalid directory is requested ${HOME} is returned.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       See environ(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables:

	   HOME.

       Other environment variable that are used are:

       XDG_CONFIG_HOME

	   Base directory for storge of XDG configuration files. Defaults to ${HOME}/.config

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir

	   XDG Directory expansion utility.

       ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}/user-dirs.dirs

	   Location of the user-specific configuration including the current list of directories and what they map to.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Location of user's documents directory

       % xdg-user-dir DOCUMENTS

       /home/user/Documents

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWxdg-user-dirs 	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |Uncommitted		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       More information can be found at:

       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs

       xdg-user-dirs-update(1), xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update(1), attributes(5)

NOTES

       Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc, 2008

SunOS 5.11							    03 Apr 2008 						   xdg-user-dir(1)