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

NAME
       user-dirs.defaults - default settings for XDG user dirs

DESCRIPTION
       The /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults file is a text file that contains the default values for the
       XDG user dirs which are used by the xdg-user-dirs-update command.

       This file contains lines of the form

           NAME=VALUE

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

       The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and will be translated on a
       per-path-element basis into the users locale.

       Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.

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)

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