updated ls alias for color, added GNOME desktop dirs

2 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/.config/user-dirs.dirs b/.config/user-dirs.dirs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..df95c8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.config/user-dirs.dirs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+# 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/desktop"
+XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/tmp"
+XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
+XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/"
+XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/docs"
+XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/media/music"
+XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/media/photos"
+XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/media"
diff --git a/.profile b/.profile
index 4e5c8c4..33c53a8 100644
--- a/.profile
+++ b/.profile
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ case `id -u` in
     *) PS1="${PS1}$ ";;
 esac
 
-alias ls="ls -G"
+#alias ls="ls -G"
+alias ls="ls --color=auto"
 alias xterm_="xterm -rv +sb -ls"
 #alias scipy = "ipython -pylab"