Remove or hide desktop folder in ~ (Xubuntu)

I've never used "Desktop" folder in my home directory for anything and I would like to remove but it always recreates itself when I delete it or hide it. It's pretty sticky.

I've also tried include folder into .hidden file, editing user-dirs.conf in /etc and /etc/xdg but with no success.

It reminds me every day that I'm not able to get rid of it :-)

Thank you for any information.

There are two possible solutions (as far as I can tell):

Move the Desktop folder

1. Open the file ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs in a text editor
2. Change the line XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" to point to some other location
   (for example: XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.config/desktop")
   • Do not just remove the line:
     Doing so will make it use the default value ($HOME/Desktop) and you'll end up in the same situation that you are already in :-)
3. Save the file
4. Log out and back in

Disable the desktop entirely (advanced)

This is a more advanced method that will disable desktop management entirely (including desktop folder creation and display).

1. Launch a terminal (if you don't know how than this isn't for you)
2. Type in this command: xfconf-query --channel "xfce4-session" --property "/sessions/Failsafe/Client4_Command" --type string --set ""
   • Basically it tells the session manager (the thing that starts and monitors your desktop and window manager, panel, ...) to not start any desktop manager ("Client2") anymore
3. Log out and back in

If you wish to re-enable desktop management later on, do the same steps as above but use the command xfconf-query --channel "xfce4-session" --property "/sessions/Failsafe/Client4_Command" --type string --set "xfdesktop" instead.