On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Robbie Smith wrote:

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"

You can only expect these to be set if the default has been changed. If they're unset, it means anything querying them should fall back to ~/.config (and the other fallbacks).

On Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:42:32 +1100 Robbie Smith wrote:

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.

Are there any packaged applications broken, or only your 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.

libx11 no longer ships the XDG_CONFIG_* variables. Also, notice that xfce4 by itself does not need XDG_CONFIG_* to be set.

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"

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