Comment by sam_lowry_
14 hours ago
> what am I missing here?
There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564
14 hours ago
> what am I missing here?
There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564
> also of note, we (mostly) don't allow ~/Desktop as the download dir for security reasons
This isn't an XDG issue. It's a chromium engineers being silly pricks that think they know better than the power users who obviously went out of their way to create such a configuration. Also I bet it would work if you set your XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to ~/Download/