lxqt-config-session / User Directories does not show previously set xdg user dirs
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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lxqt-session (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have my personal data in a separate partition, and when I do a new install of a distro
(Originally Ubuntu, then Lubuntu for a long time, now Lubuntu Next) always change xdg's user-dirs.dirs to point at directories in my partition:
"
#XDG_DESKTOP_
#XDG_DOWNLOAD_
#XDG_TEMPLATES_
#XDG_PUBLICSHAR
#XDG_DOCUMENTS_
#XDG_MUSIC_
#XDG_PICTURES_
#XDG_VIDEOS_
#
XDG_DESKTOP_
XDG_DOWNLOAD_
XDG_TEMPLATES_
XDG_PUBLICSHARE
XDG_DOCUMENTS_
XDG_MUSIC_
XDG_PICTURES_
XDG_VIDEOS_
"
and yet, when I explored the preferences apps for LXQt, and visited Session Settings ->
User Directories, I found them all pointing to /home/scott/... , not /data/scott/...
This confused me, and I did some research, as I was unsure what this app was supposed to
accomplish in the first place.
It seems that this app is supposed to do conveniently with a GUI,
what I had been doing manually with just my text editor - to SET the xdg user dirs.
I have used/re-booted Lubuntu Next a number of times, and since xdg-user-
supposedly runs "very early in the logon process" (or similar wordage), I had to
conclude one of two things:
1. Somehow xdg-user-
2. user-dirs.dirs was not being read upon Session Settings being launched
(or at least was not populating the forms with the read file contents.)
1. seems false, as Nemo File Manager correctly finds my desktop and places it in the left panel, and the desktop itself, which is (I believe) handled by PCManFM, shows my desktop icons. (I see PCManFM itself seems to have a problem with my user dirs, as when I click on the desktop left-panel icon, I get an error: "Error when getting information for file “/home/
PCManFM DOES find the user-dirs and populates the left panel/bookmarks with my selected directories (aside from the above error).
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scott@scott-
Linux scott-ASUS-
scott@scott-
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
bionic
scott@scott-
QLubuntu
scott@scott-
lxqt-session:
Installed: 0.12.0-5
Candidate: 0.12.0-5
Version table:
*** 0.12.0-5 500
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
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ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: lxqt-session 0.12.0-5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXQt
Date: Thu May 3 14:51:45 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-04-29 (3 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu-Next 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Alpha amd64 (20180421)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxqt-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)