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I've changed my Home folders name, like, "Documents" I changed to "docs", "Downloads" to "downloads" and "Pictures" to "img".. but now my Desktop is not well configured, for example, my background-image for the desktop isn't found. Where to I change/configure or redo this in the good way?

Thank you very much for your time

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    Which distro are you on?
    – nerdwaller
    Dec 1, 2013 at 15:21
  • Distro isn't as important as which Desktop Environment (sorry for being lazy earlier). If it's XDG related (most of the main ones), see my answer below.
    – nerdwaller
    Dec 1, 2013 at 15:37

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Some of the applications might keep paths to files in their config files. It might be safer to create links instead of renaming the directories

ln -s Documents docs

Otherwise, you have to find all the config files and fix them, or rerun all the applications and reconfigure them.

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  • It's probably worth pointing out that this will clutter the homefolder with symlinks, seemingly ruining their desired result. For example, they will now see both docs and Documents.
    – nerdwaller
    Dec 1, 2013 at 15:17
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On many DEs, that stuff is specified in

User Level: ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs Global Level: /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults

Example Contents:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Share"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

Once you make changes, you'll need to run xdg-user-dirs-update

Source

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