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Which application should I blame for compulsively creating a directory again and again?

When I upload files via Firefox, the Open File dialog appears and the Desktop folder is automatically created. I am using Arch Linux with Xmonad and quite frankly I don't need a Desktop folder inside my home folder.

How do I stop this from happening in the future (i.e. disable the auto creation of the Desktop folder)?

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You can do this by creating or editing a file called user-dirs.dirs in ~/.config. Mine has the following:

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="/srv/documents/"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/downloads/"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="/srv/music/"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="/srv/pictures/"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME"

Firefox follows whatever you have for XDG_DESKTOP_DIR.

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