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I am very new to linux and am going through and learning all the basics. While I was doing so I realized how odd it was that the OS treats certain files differently--namingly by displaying them on the GUI desktop enviroment if they happen to be the desktop file associated with the currently logged in user. How does the OS know the path variable to the current user's desktop directory? For hacker amusment can it be changed such that any arbitrary directory will be displayed on the GUI desktop?
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I am very new to linux and am going through and learning all the basics. While I was doing so I realized how odd it was that the OS treats certain files differently--namingly by displaying them on the GUI desktop enviroment if they happen to be the desktop file associated with the currently logged in user. How does the OS know the path variable to the current user's desktop directory? For hacker amusment can it be changed such that any arbitrary directory will be displayed on the GUI desktop?
command-line filesystems desktop-environment
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Typically ~/Desktop
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Sep 13 '17 at 2:55
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I am very new to linux and am going through and learning all the basics. While I was doing so I realized how odd it was that the OS treats certain files differently--namingly by displaying them on the GUI desktop enviroment if they happen to be the desktop file associated with the currently logged in user. How does the OS know the path variable to the current user's desktop directory? For hacker amusment can it be changed such that any arbitrary directory will be displayed on the GUI desktop?
command-line filesystems desktop-environment
asked Sep 13 '17 at 2:45
Shadow43375Shadow43375
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I am very new to linux and am going through and learning all the basics. While I was doing so I realized how odd it was that the OS treats certain files differently--namingly by displaying them on the GUI desktop enviroment if they happen to be the desktop file associated with the currently logged in user. How does the OS know the path variable to the current user's desktop directory? For hacker amusment can it be changed such that any arbitrary directory will be displayed on the GUI desktop?
command-line filesystems desktop-environment
command-line filesystems desktop-environment
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Typically ~/Desktop
– ivanivan
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Typically ~/Desktop
– ivanivan
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Typically ~/Desktop
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Typically ~/Desktop
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Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user's Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop. The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username.
I should clarify that most shells (e.g. bash, ksh, csh, etc.) will expand ~ to the home directory, but not all of them (e.g. rc). The tilde is a literal character, so you can have a file ~filename; therefore, the shell must be designed to expand the tilde under certain conditions.
answered Sep 13 '17 at 3:50
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The path for most distributions (I say most and not all because Linux (or GNU/Linux), is nothing if not mutable, for good or ill), is going to be /home/<user name>/Desktop
You can go to it through the command line like this: cd /home/<username>/Desktop
Viewing files is a simple as using the command "ls" without the quotation marks.
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
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The default path for the desktop directory varies between different languages.
Hence a better guess than $HOME/Desktop could be fetched from xdg-user-dirs in case that exists in your system:
$ xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP
/home/arnie97/桌面
There's also another way from xdg-user-dirs home page:
Here is a shellscript example of how to find the desktop and the download directory:
test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}
For application code the hope is that the various desktops will integrate this and have a nice API to find these directories.
answered 15 hours ago
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This depends on your Desktop Environment:
- KDE: You can display many arbitrary directories: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/folder-view.html
- GNOME: You need a special extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/
If you use a Window Manager, you can use different tools to display stuff on your desktop, e.g. PCmanFM desktop.
Most tools and Desktop Environments do respects your xdg-user-dir DESKTOP settings.
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Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user's Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop. The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username.
I should clarify that most shells (e.g. bash, ksh, csh, etc.) will expand ~ to the home directory, but not all of them (e.g. rc). The tilde is a literal character, so you can have a file ~filename; therefore, the shell must be designed to expand the tilde under certain conditions.
answered Sep 13 '17 at 3:50
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Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user's Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop. The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username.
I should clarify that most shells (e.g. bash, ksh, csh, etc.) will expand ~ to the home directory, but not all of them (e.g. rc). The tilde is a literal character, so you can have a file ~filename; therefore, the shell must be designed to expand the tilde under certain conditions.
answered Sep 13 '17 at 3:50
gracious1gracious1
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Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user's Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop. The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username.
I should clarify that most shells (e.g. bash, ksh, csh, etc.) will expand ~ to the home directory, but not all of them (e.g. rc). The tilde is a literal character, so you can have a file ~filename; therefore, the shell must be designed to expand the tilde under certain conditions.
answered Sep 13 '17 at 3:50
gracious1gracious1
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Generally, in GNU/Linux (as in Unix), the user's Desktop directory can be specified with ~/Desktop. The shorthand ~/ will expand to whatever the home directory is, such as /path/to/home/username.
I should clarify that most shells (e.g. bash, ksh, csh, etc.) will expand ~ to the home directory, but not all of them (e.g. rc). The tilde is a literal character, so you can have a file ~filename; therefore, the shell must be designed to expand the tilde under certain conditions.
answered Sep 13 '17 at 3:50
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The path for most distributions (I say most and not all because Linux (or GNU/Linux), is nothing if not mutable, for good or ill), is going to be /home/<user name>/Desktop
You can go to it through the command line like this: cd /home/<username>/Desktop
Viewing files is a simple as using the command "ls" without the quotation marks.
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
Anthon
61.6k17107171
answered Sep 13 '17 at 6:12
ChrisChris
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add a comment |
The path for most distributions (I say most and not all because Linux (or GNU/Linux), is nothing if not mutable, for good or ill), is going to be /home/<user name>/Desktop
You can go to it through the command line like this: cd /home/<username>/Desktop
Viewing files is a simple as using the command "ls" without the quotation marks.
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
Anthon
61.6k17107171
answered Sep 13 '17 at 6:12
ChrisChris
111
add a comment |
The path for most distributions (I say most and not all because Linux (or GNU/Linux), is nothing if not mutable, for good or ill), is going to be /home/<user name>/Desktop
You can go to it through the command line like this: cd /home/<username>/Desktop
Viewing files is a simple as using the command "ls" without the quotation marks.
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
Anthon
61.6k17107171
answered Sep 13 '17 at 6:12
ChrisChris
111
The path for most distributions (I say most and not all because Linux (or GNU/Linux), is nothing if not mutable, for good or ill), is going to be /home/<user name>/Desktop
You can go to it through the command line like this: cd /home/<username>/Desktop
Viewing files is a simple as using the command "ls" without the quotation marks.
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
Anthon
61.6k17107171
answered Sep 13 '17 at 6:12
ChrisChris
111
edited Sep 13 '17 at 6:19
Anthon
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The default path for the desktop directory varies between different languages.
Hence a better guess than $HOME/Desktop could be fetched from xdg-user-dirs in case that exists in your system:
$ xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP
/home/arnie97/桌面
There's also another way from xdg-user-dirs home page:
Here is a shellscript example of how to find the desktop and the download directory:
test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}
For application code the hope is that the various desktops will integrate this and have a nice API to find these directories.
answered 15 hours ago
Arnie97Arnie97
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The default path for the desktop directory varies between different languages.
Hence a better guess than $HOME/Desktop could be fetched from xdg-user-dirs in case that exists in your system:
$ xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP
/home/arnie97/桌面
There's also another way from xdg-user-dirs home page:
Here is a shellscript example of how to find the desktop and the download directory:
test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}
For application code the hope is that the various desktops will integrate this and have a nice API to find these directories.
answered 15 hours ago
Arnie97Arnie97
1113
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The default path for the desktop directory varies between different languages.
Hence a better guess than $HOME/Desktop could be fetched from xdg-user-dirs in case that exists in your system:
$ xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP
/home/arnie97/桌面
There's also another way from xdg-user-dirs home page:
Here is a shellscript example of how to find the desktop and the download directory:
test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}
For application code the hope is that the various desktops will integrate this and have a nice API to find these directories.
answered 15 hours ago
Arnie97Arnie97
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The default path for the desktop directory varies between different languages.
Hence a better guess than $HOME/Desktop could be fetched from xdg-user-dirs in case that exists in your system:
$ xdg-user-dirs DESKTOP
/home/arnie97/桌面
There's also another way from xdg-user-dirs home page:
Here is a shellscript example of how to find the desktop and the download directory:
test -f ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs && source ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-~/.config}/user-dirs.dirs
echo ${XDG_DESKTOP_DIR:-$HOME/Desktop}
echo ${XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR:-$HOME}
For application code the hope is that the various desktops will integrate this and have a nice API to find these directories.
answered 15 hours ago
Arnie97Arnie97
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This depends on your Desktop Environment:
- KDE: You can display many arbitrary directories: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/folder-view.html
- GNOME: You need a special extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/
If you use a Window Manager, you can use different tools to display stuff on your desktop, e.g. PCmanFM desktop.
Most tools and Desktop Environments do respects your xdg-user-dir DESKTOP settings.
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This depends on your Desktop Environment:
- KDE: You can display many arbitrary directories: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/folder-view.html
- GNOME: You need a special extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/
If you use a Window Manager, you can use different tools to display stuff on your desktop, e.g. PCmanFM desktop.
Most tools and Desktop Environments do respects your xdg-user-dir DESKTOP settings.
answered 14 hours ago
ctxctx
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This depends on your Desktop Environment:
- KDE: You can display many arbitrary directories: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/folder-view.html
- GNOME: You need a special extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/
If you use a Window Manager, you can use different tools to display stuff on your desktop, e.g. PCmanFM desktop.
Most tools and Desktop Environments do respects your xdg-user-dir DESKTOP settings.
answered 14 hours ago
ctxctx
1,786515
This depends on your Desktop Environment:
- KDE: You can display many arbitrary directories: https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/plasma-desktop/folder-view.html
- GNOME: You need a special extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1465/desktop-icons/
If you use a Window Manager, you can use different tools to display stuff on your desktop, e.g. PCmanFM desktop.
Most tools and Desktop Environments do respects your xdg-user-dir DESKTOP settings.
answered 14 hours ago
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Typically ~/Desktop
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