For some reason, after my last reboot (a kernel update), none of the XDG variables[1] (such as $XDG_CONFIG_HOME) are being set, which broke a lot of my configuration, as I rely on those in scripts. I was able to fix it by writing a script[2] to drop in /etc/profile.d/ that would create those directories and export the variables as required, but what I want to know is why they broke in the first place. Has anyone else experienced this? Robbie [1] http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html#varia... [2] Like this (taken from /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc) : #!/bin/sh # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME defines the base directory relative to which # user specific configuration files should be stored. If # $XDG_CONFIG_HOME is either not set or empty, a default equal to # $HOME/.config should be used. if test "x$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" = "x" ; then XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config export XDG_CONFIG_HOME fi [ -d "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME" ] || mkdir "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"