I had a buddy who had his home folder also setup as his desktop, and was frustrated because he didn’t know how to fix it.

There is a file located at “/home/yourfolder/.config/user-dirs.dirs”. You edit this file to point your common folders for where ever you would like.

Here is my setup.

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR=”$HOME/Desktop”
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=”$HOME/Templates”
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR=”$HOME/Public”
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR=”$HOME/Documents”
XDG_MUSIC_DIR=”$HOME/Music”
XDG_PICTURES_DIR=”$HOME/Pictures”
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR=”$HOME/Videos”

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