Decapitalising Folders in Home?

[Mordent]

Hi all, first post here after a fair bit of lurking as I try to get more familiar with Linux!

Anyway, my "problem" is this:

Let's assume my user name on my Linux system is user. This means my home directory is /home/user. Now, inside that directory are a whole bunch of default folders: Download; Documents; Music...etc. I would like to be able to rename all of this folders so that they contain no capital letters (so download; documents; music...etc.) Is there any way of doing this and still keeping the Places menu working and looking nice (i.e. still capitalised)?

If this isn't possible, how about decapitalising the folders in both the home directory and in the Places menu?

I'm running Fedora 10, 64-bit. If there's any more information you need just ask and I'll try to provide it. Naturally I have access to the root user and so on.

Any help would be great! Thanks in advance!

[vallimar]

I would try to copy /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults to ~/.config/user-dirs.conf.
Then edit the copied file, removing the capitalization and making whatever path changes that
you might want to make. After that, run xdg-user-dirs-update. There is also a gtk version
that might perform the same with a gui. I've not used them myself so not entirely sure how
they operate. You could also just relog your X session as the default session has a bit to run
the xdg update. Either way, you will probably have to clean up the old versions if it didn't convert
them for you.

[Mordent]

Worked like an absolute charm, thanks! I did have to do a few restarts, which is where I was going wrong the first time. I guess I just assumed it would work straight off. Still, all sorted now, cheers again!