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D or d come on (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Yes, but this is the default on many distros, so for once the end user is not to blame

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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