user-dirs.conf5
Configuration for xdg-user-dirs-update
Overview
The /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf file is a text file that controls the behavior of the xdg-user-dirs-update command. Users can have their own ~/.config/user-dirs.conf file, which overrides the system-wide configuration.
The following keys are recognised:
enabled=boolean
When set to False, xdg-user-dirs-update will not change the XDG user dirs configuration.
filename_encoding=encoding
This sets the filename encoding to use. encoding can be an explicit encoding name, such as UTF-8, or "locale", which means the encoding of the users locale will be used.
Lines beginning with a # character are ignored.
Environment
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
The system-wide user-dirs.conf file is located in this directory. The default is /etc/xdg.
XDG_CONFIG_HOME
The per-user user-dirs.conf file is located in this directory. The default is $HOME/.config.
Releases
7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 5 times.