Hello. I use Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with English localization. I noticed that an empty directory with the Russian name " Downloads " began to appear in the home directory. It is created on my behalf, as all rights on it are mine. If you delete it, then after some time it appears again. Applications that I use: Atom, Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission, rtorrent, VLC, but all that download something from the Internet are set to “ Download ”. Is it possible to find out who creates this strange directory and somehow get rid of it? Maybe in practice it does not interfere with the work, but it is very annoying. Thank.

$ tail -n 100 ~/.config/user-dirs.* /etc/xdg/user-dirs.*==> /home/lebvlad/.config/user-dirs.dirs <== # This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update # If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're # interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run # Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped # homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an # absolute path. No other format is supported. # XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads" XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates" XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public" XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents" XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music" XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures" XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos" ==> /home/lebvlad/.config/user-dirs.locale <== en_US ==> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf <== # This controls the behaviour of xdg-user-dirs-update which is run on user login # You can also have per-user config in ~/.config/user-dirs.conf, or specify # the XDG_CONFIG_HOME and/or XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to override this # enabled=True # This sets the filename encoding to use. You can specify an explicit # encoding, or "locale" which means the encoding of the users locale # will be used filename_encoding=UTF-8 ==> /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults <== # Default settings for user directories # # The values are relative pathnames from the home directory and # will be translated on a per-path-element basis into the users locale DESKTOP=Desktop DOWNLOAD=Downloads TEMPLATES=Templates PUBLICSHARE=Public DOCUMENTS=Documents MUSIC=Music PICTURES=Pictures VIDEOS=Videos # Another alternative is: #MUSIC=Documents/Music #PICTURES=Documents/Pictures #VIDEOS=Documents/Videos
  • ru.stackoverflow.com/search?q=xdg-user-dir - aleksandr barakin
  • please attach the output of the command $ tail -n 100 ~/.config/user-dirs.* /etc/xdg/user-dirs.* to the question text (by clicking edit ) $ tail -n 100 ~/.config/user-dirs.* /etc/xdg/user-dirs.* - aleksandr barakin
  • in general, the xdg-user-dirs-update program or some of its counterparts, launched at the start of the x-session, creates the directory. but these programs should be guided by the contents of the files about which my previous comment is about. - aleksandr barakin
  • @alexanderbarakin added. PS Sorry for the long answer - the Internet has disappeared. - lebvlad
  • judging by the attached information, the appearance of the ~/загрузки directory can hardly be expected from the xdg-user-dirs-update program. but just in case specify: the catalog appears only immediately after the start of the x-session, or at arbitrary points in time? if arbitrary, then the source is probably some kind of running / running program. - aleksandr barakin

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