Re:Show HN: TUI for managing XDG default applications
by mikkupikku on Sunday January 25, 2026 @02:02PM
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> 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/
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/