Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

[–] Synthead@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Keep filling those bugs and stop complaining on random forums, kids

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 6 points 11 months ago

Porque no los dos?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something something symlink Downloads to downloads

[–] MooseBoys@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah but the main issue is that I don’t want there to be a Downloads directory in my home.

[–] Number358@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ln -s ~/Downloads ~/downloads

[–] paperplane@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is all fun and games until you try moving a backup to a file system that's case-insensitive

[–] zlatko@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why not just cd $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR in the first place?

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not an environment variable. It's defined in ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-$HOME/.config}/user-dirs.dirs.

Though you can use the xdg-user-dir DOWNLOAD command to get it automatically.