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edited Oct 5, 2019 at 9:07

async getLinuxDesktop(){
    let file = Path.join(Os.homedir(), ".config", "user-dirs.dirs")
    let data = {}
    if(fs.existsSync(file)){
        let content = await fs.readFileAsync(file,"utf8")
        let lines = content.split(/\r?\n/g).filter((a)=> !a.startsWith("#"))
        for(let line of lines){
            let i = line.indexOf("=")
            if(i >= 0){
                try{
                    data[line.substring(0,i)] = JSON.parse(line.substring(i + 1))
                }catch(e){}
            }
        }
    }
    if(data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]){
        let desktop = data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]
        desktop = desktop.replace(/\$([A-Za-z\-\_]+)|\$\{([^\{^\}]+)\}/g, (_, a, b) => (process.env[a || b] || ""))
        return desktop
    }else{
        return Path.join(Os.homedir(),"Desktop")
    }
}

async getLinuxDesktop(){
    let file = Path.join(Os.homedir(), ".config", "user-dirs.dirs")
    let data = {}
    if(fs.existsSync(file)){
        let content = await fs.readFileAsync(file,"utf8")
        let lines = content.split(/\r?\n/g).filter((a)=> !a.startsWith("#"))
        for(let line of lines){
            let i = line.indexOf("=")
            if(i >= 0){
                try{
                    data[line.substring(0,i)] = JSON.parse(line.substring(1))
                }catch(e){}
            }
        }
    }
    if(data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]){
        let desktop = data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]
        desktop = desktop.replace(/\$([A-Za-z\-\_]+)|\$\{([^\{^\}]+)\}/g, (_, a, b) => (process.env[a || b] || ""))
        return desktop
    }else{
        return Path.join(Os.homedir(),"Desktop")
    }
}

async getLinuxDesktop(){
    let file = Path.join(Os.homedir(), ".config", "user-dirs.dirs")
    let data = {}
    if(fs.existsSync(file)){
        let content = await fs.readFileAsync(file,"utf8")
        let lines = content.split(/\r?\n/g).filter((a)=> !a.startsWith("#"))
        for(let line of lines){
            let i = line.indexOf("=")
            if(i >= 0){
                try{
                    data[line.substring(0,i)] = JSON.parse(line.substring(i + 1))
                }catch(e){}
            }
        }
    }
    if(data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]){
        let desktop = data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]
        desktop = desktop.replace(/\$([A-Za-z\-\_]+)|\$\{([^\{^\}]+)\}/g, (_, a, b) => (process.env[a || b] || ""))
        return desktop
    }else{
        return Path.join(Os.homedir(),"Desktop")
    }
}

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answered Oct 5, 2019 at 9:01

James Suárez

The desktop directory is different according to language of system. Adding to options given for other person, you can find the file ~/.config/users-dirs.dirs

Example you can read the content:

cat ~/.config/users-dirs.dirs

In my machine shows this:

# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-update
# If you want to change or add directories, just edit the line you're
# interested in. All local changes will be retained on the next run.
# Format is XDG_xxx_DIR="$HOME/yyy", where yyy is a shell-escaped
# homedir-relative path, or XDG_xxx_DIR="/yyy", where /yyy is an
# absolute path. No other format is supported.
# 
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Escritorio"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Descargas"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Plantillas"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Público"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documentos"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Música"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Imágenes"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Vídeos"

How you can see my desktop directory is: "$HOME/Escritorio" where $HOME is an environment variable that refers to your home folder. In practice:

cd ~/Escritorio 
# is the same 
cd "$HOME/Escritorio"

If you are interested in getting desktop dir by programming, you can read the file and parse the content. For example look my javascript code for get desktop directory:

async getLinuxDesktop(){
    let file = Path.join(Os.homedir(), ".config", "user-dirs.dirs")
    let data = {}
    if(fs.existsSync(file)){
        let content = await fs.readFileAsync(file,"utf8")
        let lines = content.split(/\r?\n/g).filter((a)=> !a.startsWith("#"))
        for(let line of lines){
            let i = line.indexOf("=")
            if(i >= 0){
                try{
                    data[line.substring(0,i)] = JSON.parse(line.substring(1))
                }catch(e){}
            }
        }
    }
    if(data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]){
        let desktop = data["XDG_DESKTOP_DIR"]
        desktop = desktop.replace(/\$([A-Za-z\-\_]+)|\$\{([^\{^\}]+)\}/g, (_, a, b) => (process.env[a || b] || ""))
        return desktop
    }else{
        return Path.join(Os.homedir(),"Desktop")
    }
}