On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 08:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote: > John Horne wrote: > > > >> Uninstall xdg-user-dirs-gtk and not xdg-user-dirs or change the > >> setting in under .config. This isn't GNOME specific btw. > >> > > Hi, > > > > Unfortunately this doesn't work. I have just installed F7 on my work PC, > > and in trying to remove xdg-user-dirs-gtk found that it is not > > installed. During installation I asked to have KDE installed and not > > GNOME. > > > > I have tried editing the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file by setting the > > directory names to nothing, or removing the lines completely. However, > > whenever I log back in, the .config files and the directories are there > > again. > > > > Any ideas? > > edit either /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf or ~/.config/user-dirs.conf to include > enabled=False > Hurrah! That worked. I must admit I didn't look in /etc to see if there was a file there. The files in the home directory didn't indicate anything about an 'enabled' option to disable their use. Many thanks, John. -- --------------------------------------------------------------- John Horne, University of Plymouth, UK Tel: +44 (0)1752 233914 E-mail: John.Horne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fax: +44 (0)1752 233839
