How can I stop Steam from polluting my home directory?
After the Steam beta went public the Steam directory was changed from $HOME to $HOME/.local/share/Steam. You might want to try uninstalling your current Steam installation and re-installing from the USC.
if you create a .hidden file with each of those names in it (1 line each) they will not be displayed in nautilus (ubuntu's default file manager) unless you set it to show hidden files, i am sure you can delete the install ones but i am not sure about the rest
** does not work in thunar bug 110521
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