XDG_CONFIG_HOME

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 14:25:44 UTC 2013


Hi


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh at pacbell.net>wrote:

> **
> Font control files and a bunch of other stuff for per-user configuration
> is supposed to be stored relative to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME .  I would assume
> that this is be set by default by either a standard login script, or by the
> window manager, which in my case is KDE.  But it isn't.  Is this a
> problem?  If it is a problem, how do I fix it?
>
> Thanks - jon
>

It is not supposed to be set by default.  The default is .config in your
home directory.  If you do set it to something else via the variable, apps
should respect it however.  Refer to

http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html

Rahul
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