script to move desktop icon to desktop/escritorio, how to know language?

permalac · 01-10-2009, 06:18 AM

Hello,

when making a script which puts a launcher to the desktop we don't know which language is installed on the workstation.

in english ~/Desktop
in spanish ~/Escritorio
and so on

It is possible to get information about where the 'Desktop' is?

thanks

Vit77 · 01-10-2009, 06:54 AM

Usually this is set up in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Using 'grep' you can get your exact path.

Or use this variable, like

cp 'your launcher' $XDG_DESKTOP_DIR

permalac · 01-10-2009, 08:23 AM

i do not have the envar you are talking about, but i do have ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

many thanks.

Vit77 · 01-10-2009, 08:49 AM

Well, may be it's not the best way, but it works for me:

Code:

grep XDG_DESKTOP_DIR ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs | sed 's/.*=//g'