Where is XDG_CONFIG_HOME defined?

[José Abílio Matos]

Hi,
    I am running F18, and I got tired of getting the same warning all
over again:

Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading
configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.

Reading the fonts-conf man page I found that the right place to put it is:

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/

yet I do not have any XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable defined.

$ echo $XDG_
$XDG_DATA_DIRS    $XDG_MENU_PREFIX  $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR  $XDG_SEAT        
$XDG_SESSION_ID   $XDG_VTNR        

So I got curious, where is this variable defined?

I ask here because I saw several patches for kde in fedora to honour
such flag.

Regards,

-- 
José Matos

[Rex Dieter]

On 12/04/2012 03:37 PM, José Matos wrote:
>  Hi,
>       I am running F18, and I got tired of getting the same warning all
>  over again:
>
>  Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 9: reading
>  configurations from ~/.fonts.conf is deprecated.
>
>  Reading the fonts-conf man page I found that the right place to put it is:
>
>  $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/
>
>  yet I do not have any XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable defined. 
If $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not defined, it defaults to ~/.config

See http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-0.6.html

So, for the issue at hand,
mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig
mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

should fix your issue.

-- rex

[José Abílio Matos]

On 2012-12-04 23:01, Rex Dieter wrote:
>  So, for the issue at hand,
>  mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig
>  mv ~/.fonts.conf ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
>
>  should fix your issue.
>
>  -- rex  
Thank you.

I did precisely that before getting your message but it is reassuring to
know that it was the right thing to do.

Even after this simplification I get this:

$ cd
$ ls -d .* | wc -l
248

Even if we remove the trivial . and .. from this list I get 248 hidden
files on my home. Even although the Spring is not yet here, and it will
not be in the next four months (in the northern hemisphere) I think that
some cleanings are in order. :-)

-- 
José Matos